Quotes From Socrates

Socrates
“When you want wisdom…”

“True wisdom comes to…”
"Falling down is not a failure. Failure comes when you stay where you have
fallen."
"If you want to be wrong then follow the masses."
"The secret of happiness, you see, is not found in seeking more, but in
developing the capacity to enjoy less."
"Awareness of ignorance is the beginning of wisdom."
"In every person there is a sun. Just let them shine."
"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is a habit."
“Wisdom begins in wonder.”
"I know you won't believe me, but the highest form of Human Excellence is to
question oneself and others."
"He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what
he would like to have."
"There is no possession more valuable than a good and faithful friend."
"Do not go through life like leaf blown from here to there believing whatever
you are told."
"Silence is a profound melody, for those who can hear it above all the noise."
"The easiest and noblest way is not to be crushing others, but to be improving
yourselves."
"It is better to make a mistake with full force of your being than to carefully
avoid mistakes with a trembling spirit."
"Be the kind of person that you want people to think you are."
"Every action has its pleasures and its price."
Why should we pay so much attention to what the majority thinks?
"Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be
overjoyed in good fortune nor too scornful in misfortune."
"I don't care what people say about me. I do care about my mistakes."
"Prefer knowledge to wealth, for the one is transitory, the other perpetual."
"The unexamined life is not worth living."
"wealth does not bring goodness, but goodness brings wealth and every other
blessing, both to the individual and to the state"
"True wisdom lies in one's confession about the limits of one's knowledge."
"This is a universe that does not favor the timid."
"Improve yourself by other men's writings thus attaining effortlessly what they
acquired through great difficulty."
"Beware the barrenness of a busy life."
"We can do nothing without the body, let us always take care that it is in the
best condition to sustain us."
"Be true to thine own self."
"Those who want the fewest things are nearest to the gods."
"The individual leads in order that those who are led can develop their
potential as human beings and thereby prosper."
"There's no good answer to a question you didn't hear"
"You don't know what you don't know."
"If what you want to tell me is neither True nor Good nor even Useful, why tell
it to me at all"
"It is best and easiest not to discredit others but to prepare oneself to be as
good as possible."
"My belief is that to have no wants is divine."
"You never know a line is crooked unless you have a straight one to put next to
it."
"Let us follow the truth whither so ever it leads."

"The partisan when he is engaged in a dispute, cares nothing about the rights
of the question, but is anxious only to convince his hearers of his own
assertions."
"The heart of the person before you is a mirror. See there your own form."
"The soul, like the body, accepts by practice whatever habit one wishes it to
contact."
"When I was young, I believed that life might unfold in an orderly way,
according to my hopes and expectations. But now I understand that the Way
winds like a river, always changing, ever onward”
“My journeys revealed that the Way itself creates the warrior; that every path
leads to peace, every choice to wisdom.”
“Life has always been, and will always be, arising in Mystery."
"When you want success as badly as you want the air, then you will get it.
There is no other secret of success."
True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand
about life, ourselves, and the world around us.”
"I am a citizen, not of Athens, or Greece, but of the world."
"Fellow citizens, why do you burn and scrape every stone to gather wealth and
take so little care of your children to whom you must one day relinquish all?"
"I pray Thee, O God, that I may be beautiful within."
"There is no difference between knowledge and temperance; for he who
knows what is good and embraces it, who knows what is bad and avoids it, is
learned and temperate."
"Marry a good woman, and be happy the rest of your life. Or, marry a bad, and
become a good philosopher."
"Serenity, regularity, absence of vanity, Sincerity, simplicity, veracity,
equanimity, Fixity, non-irritability, adaptability, Humility, tenacity, integrity,
nobility, magnanimity, charity, generosity, purity. Practice daily these eighteen
"ities" You will soon attain immortality."
"The poets are only the interpreters of the Gods."
“When you want wisdom and insight as badly as you want to breathe, it is then
you shall have it.”
"I will not yield to any man contrary to what is right, for fear of death, even if I
should die at once for not yielding."
"The duller eye may often see a thing sooner than the keener."
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“When you want wisdom…”

"Let us follow the truth whither so ever it leads."

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