Famous Quotes by Socrates

“Know thyself.”

Socrates

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

Socrates

“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?”

Socrates

“Mankind is made of two kinds of people: wise people who know they're fools, and fools who think they are wise.”

Socrates

“Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.”

Socrates

“The unexamined life is not worth living.”

Socrates

“The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.”

Socrates

“If what you want to say is neither true, nor good or kind, nor useful or necessary, please don't say anything at all”

Socrates

Beware the barrenness of a busy life.

Socrates

The unexamined life is not worth living.

Socrates

Truth is born through exploration, questioning, and seeking.

Socrates

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.

Socrates

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

Socrates

The unexamined life is not worth living.

Socrates

To find yourself, think for yourself.

Socrates

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.

Socrates

The unexamined life is not worth living.

Socrates