Quotes by Socrates

“He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.”

“Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued. ”

“Know thyself.”

“Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for.”

“The greatest blessing granted to mankind come by way of madness, which is a divine gift.”

“The children now love luxury. They have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise.”

“By all means marry; if you get a good wife, youll become happy; if you get a bad one, youll become a philosopher.”

“I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think”

“Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.”

“Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty.”

“I only know that I know nothing”

“My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a philosopher.”

“Are you not ashamed of caring so much for the making of money and for fame and prestige, when you neither think nor care about wisdom and truth and the improvement of your soul?”

“Do not trouble about those who practice philosophy, whether they are good or bad; but examine the thing itself well and carefully. And if philosophy appears a bad thing to you, turn every man from ...”

“Prayer is based on the remote possibility that someone is actually listening; but so is a lot of conversation. If the former seems far-fetched, consider the latter: even if someone is listening to ...”

“True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.”

“Although her disobedience is tragic, Eves innocence is not all bad. Certainly, that innocfence leads her to make a poor choice - the very worst - but the fact that she makes a choice at all, the fa...”

“Plato offers the amazing idea that contemplation of the way things really are is, in itself, a purifying process that can bring human beings into the only divinity there is.”

“Be slow to fall into friendship, but when you are in, continue firm and constant.”

“The unexamined life is not worth living.”