Quotes By Socrates

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

Socrates

FoolSmarterKnows

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.

Socrates

GrievingActingTrue SelfGiven...+1

Beware the barrenness of a busy life.

Socrates

TimeLifeSimpleSimple Life...+1

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

Socrates

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He is the richest who is content with the least.

Socrates

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

Socrates

MistakePeopleCare I DoCare My Mistakes

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

Socrates

CareKnow ThyselfCare For YouThyself

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

Socrates

RealEvilDangerLife Is...+1

Worthless people live only to eat and drink; people of worth eat and drink only to live.

Socrates

LifeDrinkingPeopleDrink...+1

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

Socrates

LearningLifeInspirationalReading...+1

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

Socrates

BelieveIgnoranceEvidenceDemonstration...+1

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

Socrates

LifeCrushWayImproving

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

Socrates

MenPleasureDisciplineSelfcontrol

We are what we think we are.

Socrates

ThinkingMindsetSelfconcept

Wisdom begins in wonder.

Socrates

NatureWisdomSpiritualityWonder...+1

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

Socrates

WritingDifficultyImproving YourselfMen

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.

Socrates

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

Socrates

AngerInspirationalHelping OthersDone...+1

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.

Socrates

FallSandHourglassDust...+1

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

Socrates

BelieveExcellenceBelieve In MeOneself...+1