Socrates Quotes

Wisdom begins in wonder.

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

I was really too honest a man to be a politician and live.

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

The end of life is to be like God, and the soul following God will be like Him.

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

One who is injured ought not to return the injury, for on no account can it be right to do an injustice; and it is not right to return an injury, or to do evil to any man, however much we have suffered from him.

True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.

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

I only wish that ordinary people had an unlimited capacity for doing harm; then they might have an unlimited power for doing good.

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

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

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

I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.

No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death. He and his are not neglected by the gods.

As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will, he will be sure to repent.