Socrates Quotes, Status, and Thoughts

Lies are the greatest murder. They kill the Truth.

All that I know is nothing - I'm not even sure of that.

To move the world we must move ourselves.

Better to do a little well, then a great deal badly.

The unexamined life is not worth living.

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

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

Wisdom begins in wonder.

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

When you want success as badly as you want the air, then you will get it. There is no other secret of success.

He is the richest who is content with the least.

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

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

It is better to make a mistake with full force of your being than to carefully avoid mistakes with a trembling spirit.

To Believe without evidence and demonstration is an act of ignorance and folly

If what you want to tell me is neither True nor Good nor even Useful, why tell it to me at all

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

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

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

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

Beware the barrenness of a busy life.

Do not grieve over someone who changes all of the sudden. It might be that he has given up acting and returned to his true self.

Nothing is so well learned as that which is discovered.

The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary. There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance.

An education obtained with money is worse than no education at all.

The more I learn, the less I realize I know.

One should never do wrong in return, nor mistreat any man, no matter how one has been mistreated by him.

Understanding a question is half an answer.

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

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

There is no learning without remembering.

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

The body cannot be cured without regard for the soul.

There's no good answer to a question you didn't hear

Prefer knowledge to wealth, for the one is transitory, the other perpetual.

Four things belong to a judge: to hear courteously, to answer wisely, to consider soberly, and to decide impartially.

You never know a line is crooked unless you have a straight one to put next to it.

To need nothing is divine, and the less a man needs the nearer does he approach to divinity.

All wars are fought for the acquisition of wealth

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.

A system of morality that is based on relative emotional values is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception that has nothing sound in it and nothing true.

My friend...care for your psyche...know thyself, for once we know ourselves, we may learn how to care for ourselves

It is possible that a man could live twice as long if he didn't spend the first half of his life acquiring habits that shortens the other half

An honest man is always a child.

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.

We can do nothing without the body, let us always take care that it is in the best condition to sustain us.

How can you call a man free when his pleasures rule over him.

It is better to suffer an injustice than to commit one

The rest of the world lives to eat, while I eat to live.

Knowing thyself is the height of wisdom.

Do not go through life like leaf blown from here to there believing whatever you are told.

Let us follow the truth whither so ever it leads.

To harm another is to harm oneself

Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune nor too scornful in misfortune.

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.

Improve yourself by other men's writings thus attaining effortlessly what they acquired through great difficulty.

The real danger in life is not death, but living an evil life.

Nobody knows what death is, nor whether to man it is perchance the greatest of blessings, yet people fear it as if they surely knew it to be the worse of evils.

All thinking begins with wondering

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

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

If he who does not know kept silent, discord would cease.

Do not be angry with me if I tell you the truth

It is better to be at odds with the whole world than, being one, to be at odds with myself.

Wisdom is knowing what you don't know.

When you want wisdom and insight as badly as you want to breathe, it is then you shall have it.

People learn more on their own rather than being force fed. Socrates

The best seasoning for food is hunger; for drink, thirst.

In childhood be modest, in youth temperate, in adulthood just, and in old age prudent.

The highest realms of thought are impossible to reach without first attaining an understanding of compassion.

Contentment is natural wealth.

No citizen has a right to be an amateur in the matter of physical training... what a disgrace it is for a man to grow old without ever seeing the beauty and strength of which his body is capable.

Let the questions be the curriculum.

An unexamined life is a life of no account.

There is but one evil, ignorance.

Exercise till the mind feels delight in reposing from the fatigue.

Those who want the fewest things are nearest to the gods.

I love to go and see all the things I am happy without.

Slanderers do not hurt me because they do not hit me.

Be as you wish to seem.

The beginning of wisdom is a definition of terms.

The soul, like the body, accepts by practice whatever habit one wishes it to contact.

From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate.

The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be.

It is not living that matters, but living rightly.

Only the extremely ignorant or the extremely intelligent can resist change.

Go wherever the facts lead.

Every action has its pleasures and its price.

Follow the argument wherever it leads.

The heart of the person before you is a mirror. See there your own form.

Wisest is he who knows he knows not.

Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others.

What most counts is not merely to live, but to live right.

I don't care what people say about me. I do care about my mistakes.

Regard your good name as the richest jewel you can possibly be possessed of - for credit is like fire; when once you have kindled it you may easily preserve it, but if you once extinguish it, you will find it an arduous task to rekindle it again. The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.

Young people nowadays love luxury; they have bad manners and contempt for authority. They show disrespect for old people... contradict their parents, talk constantly in front of company, gobble their food and tyrannize their teachers.

The perfect human being is all human beings put together, it is a collective, it is all of us together that make perfection.

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?

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

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