“True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.”
– Socrates
“I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean.”
– Socrates
“True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.”
– Socrates
“Wisdom begins in wonder.”
– Socrates
“The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.”
– Socrates
“My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you’ll be happy if not, you’ll become a philosopher.”
– Socrates
“Employ your time in improving yourself by other men’s writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.”
– Socrates
“Our prayers should be for blessings in general, for God knows best what is good for us.”
– Socrates
“I only wish that ordinary people had an unlimited capacity for doing harm then they might have an unlimited power for doing good.”
– Socrates
“I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean.”
– Socrates
“He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.”
– Socrates
“Employ your time in improving yourself by other men’s writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.”
– Socrates
“All men’s souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine.”
– Socrates
“As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will, he will be sure to repent.”
– 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
“The end of life is to be like God, and the soul following God will be like Him.”
– Socrates
“The unexamined life is not worth living.”
– Socrates
“True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.”
– Socrates
“Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.”
– Socrates
“Beware the barrenness of a busy life.”
– Socrates
“True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.”
– Socrates
“To know, is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge.”
– Socrates
“I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.”
– Socrates
“The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be.”
– Socrates
“I only wish that ordinary people had an unlimited capacity for doing harm then they might have an unlimited power for doing good.”
– Socrates
“The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.”
– Socrates
“Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.”
– Socrates
“My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you’ll be happy if not, you’ll become a philosopher.”
– Socrates
“Our prayers should be for blessings in general, for God knows best what is good for us.”
– 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