Quotes By Socrates

I pray Thee, O God, that I may be beautiful within.

Life without enquiry is not worth living for a man.

By far the greatest and most admirable form of wisdom is that needed to plan and beautify cities and human communities.

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

The tongue of a fool is the key of his counsel, which, in a wise man, wisdom hath in keeping.

True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.

I have lived long enough to learn how much there is I can really do without.... He is nearest to God who needs the fewest things.

The beginning of wisdom is a definition of terms.

Wars and revolutions and battles are due simply and solely to the body and its desires. All wars are undertaken for the acquisition of wealth; and the reason why we have to acquire wealth is the body, because we are slaves in its service.

They are not only idle who do nothing, but they are idle also who might be better employed.

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

Be of good hope in the face of death. Believe in this one truth for certain, that no evil can befall a good man either in life or death, and that his fate is not a matter of indifference to the gods.

I will not yield to any man contrary to what is right, for fear of death, even if I should die at once for not yielding.

If you want to be a good saddler, saddle the worst horse; for if you can tame one, you can tame all.

It is a disgrace to grow old through sheer carelessness before seeing what manner of man you may become by developing your bodily strength and beauty to their highest limit.

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

The universe really is motion & nothing else.

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

My belief is that to have no wants is divine.

We shall be better, braver, andmore active if we believe it right tolook for what we don't know.