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5/24/12

SOCRATES Quotes


"All men are mortal." ~Socrates 

"Bad men live that they can eat and drink, whereas good men eat and drink that they may live" ~Socrates

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

"Be slow to fall into friendship, but when thou art in, continue firm and constant." ~Socrates

"Beware of the barrenness of a busy life." ~Socrates

"By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you’ll become happy; if you get a bad one, you’ll become a philosopher.” ~Socrates

"Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel." ~Socrates

“Employ your time in improving your self by other men‘s writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored.”
Socrates 

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

"He is richest who is content with the least; for content is the wealth of nature." ~Socrates (c. 470-399 B.C.)

"He who is not a good servant will not be a good master." ~Socrates 

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

"I am not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world.” ~Socrates

"I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.”  ~Socrates

“I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think." ~Socrates

"I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled [poets] to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration." ~Socrates

"I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance" ~Socrates

"I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I KNOW NOTHING." ~SOCRATES

"I only know that I know nothing." ~Socrates

"If you don’t get what you want, you suffer; if you get what you don’t want, you suffer; even when you get exactly what you want, you still suffer because you can’t hold on to it forever. Your mind is your predicament. It wants to be free of change. Free of pain, free of the obligations of life and death. But change is law and no amount of pretending will alter that reality.” ~Socrates

"It is better to change an opinion than to persist in a wrong one." ~Socrates  

"Know thyself.” ~Socrates

"Let him who would move the world first move himself.” ~Socrates

"Living well and beautifully and justly are all one thing." ~ Socrates

"Man must rise above the Earth—to the top of the atmosphere and beyond—for only thus will he fully understand the world in which he lives." ~Socrates

"Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.“ ~Socrates

"Nothing can harm a good man, either in life or after death." ~Socrates (469-300 BC)

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

"Prefer knowledge to wealth, for the one is transitory, the other perpetual.” ~Socrates

“Remember that there is nothing stable in human affairs; therefore avoid undue elation in prosperity, or undue depression in adversity.” ~Socrates

"Some people put walls up, not to keep people out, but to see who cares enough to knock them down." ~Socrates

"Sometimes you put walls up not to keep people out, but to see who cares enough to break them down.” ~Socrates

"Speak, so that I may see you." ~Socrates

“Strong minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, weak minds discuss people.” ~Socrates

"Such as thy words are, such will thine affections be esteemed; and such as thine affections, will be thy deeds; and such as thy deeds will be thy life…" ~Socrates

"The hottest love has the coldest end." ~Socrates

"The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing." ~Socrates

"The mind is everything; what you think you become." ~Socrates

"The noblest worship is to make yourself as good and as just as you can." ~Socrates

"The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new." ~Socrates

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

"The unexamined life is not worth living." ~Socrates

“There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance.” ~Socrates

“This is what will be my destruction if I am destroyed; – not Meletus, nor yet Anytus, but the ENVY and DETRACTION of the world, which has been the death of many good men, and probably be the death of many more; there is no danger being the last of them.” ~Socrates, Apology by Plato

"To be is to do." ~Socrates

“To find yourself, think for yourself.” ~Socrates

"True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing." ~Socrates

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

"Understanding a question is half an answer." ~Socrates

"When the debate is lost, insults become the loser's tool." ~Socrates 

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

"Whichever you do you will repent it." ~Socrates

"Wisdom begins in wonder." ~Socrates

“Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.” ~Socrates

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