Socrates Quotes

Most people, including ourselves, live in a world of relative ignorance. We are even comfortable with that ignorance, because it is all we know. When we first start facing truth, the process may be frightening, and many people run back to their old lives. But if you continue to seek truth, you will eventually be able to handle it better. In fact, you want more! It's true that many people around you now may think you are weird or even a danger to society, but you don't care. Once you've tasted the truth, you won't ever want to go back to being ignorant

Falling down is not a failure. Failure comes when you stay where you have fallen.

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.

When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser.

The secret of happiness, you see, is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less.

I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.

Awareness of ignorance is the beginning of wisdom.

No one can teach, if by teaching we mean the transmission of knowledge, in any mechanical fashion, from one person to another. The most that can be done is that one person who is more knowledgeable than another can, by asking a series of questions, stimulate the other to think, and so cause him to learn for himself.

Obligation sends the children to bed on time, but love tucks the covers in around their necks and passes out kisses and hugs. Yesterday is about experience; tomorrow is about hope; today is about transitioning from one to the other. The happiest people on earth don't have the best of everything... they make the best of everything I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.

There is no possession more valuable than a good and faithful friend.

Do it because it's in your heart. Not because you want something in return. Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.

True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.

Serenity, regularity, absence of vanity,Sincerity, simplicity, veracity, equanimity, Fixity, non-irritability, adaptability, Humility, tenacity, integrity, nobility, magnanimity, charity, generosity, purity. Practise daily these eighteen "ities" You will soon attain immortality.

If you want to be wrong then follow the masses.

I am a Citizen of the World, and my Nationality is Goodwill.

Trust not a woman when she weeps, for it is her nature to weep when she wants her will.

When a woman is allowed to become a man's equal, she becomes his superior.

In every person there is a sun. Just let them shine.

The unexamined life is not worth living.

Bad men live that they may eat and drink, whereas good men eat and drink that they may live.

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is a habit.

Understanding a question is half an answer.

There are two kinds of disease of the soul, vice and ignorance.

I am a fool, but I know I'm a fool and that makes me smarter than you.

Wisdom begins in wonder.

Silence is a profound melody, for those who can hear it above all the noise.

Our lives are but specks of dust falling through the fingers of time. Like sands of the hourglass, so are the days of our lives.

Beware the barrenness of a busy life.

Be the kind of person that you want people to think you are.

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. And that life has always been, and will always be, arising in Mystery.

What is happening to our young people? They disrespect their elders, they disobey their parents. They ignore the law. They riot in the streets inflamed with wild notions. Their morals are decaying. What is to become of them?

The years wrinkle our skin, but lack of enthusiasm wrinkles our soul.

Sometimes you have to let go to see if there was anything worth holding onto.

I call myself a Peaceful Warrior... because the battles we fight are on the inside.

Whom do I call educated? First, those who manage well the circumstances they encounter day by day. Next, those who are decent and honorable in their intercourse with all men, bearing easily and good naturedly what is offensive in others and being as agreeable and reasonable to their associates as is humanly possible to be... those who hold their pleasures always under control and are not ultimately overcome by their misfortunes... those who are not spoiled by their successes, who do not desert their true selves but hold their ground steadfastly as wise and sober - minded men.

To find yourself, think for yourself.

We are what we think we are

Marry or marry not, in any either case you'll regret it

He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.

I know you won't believe me, but the highest form of Human Excellence is to question oneself and others.

Lies are the greatest murder. They kill the Truth.

Our prayers should be for blessings in general, for God knows best what is good for us.

The really important thing is not to live, but to live well. And to live well meant, along with more enjoyable things in life, to live according to your principles.

The friend must be like money, that before you need it, the value is known.

Be as you wish to seem.

I swear it upon Zeus an outstanding runner cannot be the equal of an average wrestler.

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.

Well I am certainly wiser than this man. It is only too likely that neither of us has any knowledge to boast of; but he thinks that he knows something which he does not know, whereas I am quite conscious of my ignorance. At any rate it seems that I am wiser than he is to this small extent, that I do not think that I know what I do not know.

The hour of departure has arrived and we go our ways; I to die, and you to live. Which is better? Only God knows.

The cure of many diseases remains unknown to the physicians of Hellos (Greece) because they do not study the whole person.