Top 440 Quotes & Sayings by Socrates - Page 2

To find yourself, think for yourself.

We are what we think we are

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

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

Lies are the greatest murder. They kill the Truth.

This is a universe that does not favor the timid.

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

There is no learning without remembering.

It is better to suffer an injustice than to commit one

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

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

Get married, in any case. If you happen to get a good mate, you will be happy; if a bad one, you will become philosophical, which is a fine thing in itself.

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

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.

Nothing is so well learned as that which is discovered.

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

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

He is the richest who is content with the least.

To move the world we must move ourselves.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

Understanding a question is half an answer.

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?

Why should we pay so much attention to what the majority thinks?

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

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.

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

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

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

The young people of today think of nothing but themselves. They have no reverence for parents or old age. They are impatient of all restraint. They talk as if they alone knew everything and what passes for wisdom with us is foolishness with them. As for girls, they are forward, immodest and unwomanly in speech, behaviour and dress.

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.

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

The easiest and noblest way is not to be crushing others, but to be improving yourselves.

All things in moderation, including moderation.

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.

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.

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

The first key to greatness is to be in reality what we appear to be.

Knowing thyself is the height of wisdom.

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

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

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

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

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.

The partisan when he is engaged in a dispute, cares nothing about the rights of the question, but is anxious only to convince his hearers of his own assertions.

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

Let the questions be the curriculum.

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

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