Quotes By Socrates

Think not those faithful who praise all thy words and actions, but those who kindly reprove thy faults.

Wealth does not bring goodness, but goodness brings wealth and every other blessing, both to the individual and to the state.

Only the knowledge that comes from inside is the real Knowledge.

Four things belong to a judge: to hear courteously, to answer wisely, to consider soberly, and to decide impartially.

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

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.

The perfect human being is all human beings put together, it is a collective, it is all of us together that make perfection.

There is no learning without remembering.

When our feet hurt, we hurt all over.

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

If he who does not know kept silent, discord would cease.

Go wherever the facts lead.

A system of morality that is based on relative emotional values is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception that has nothing sound in it and nothing true.

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.

The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary.There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance.

The true Wisdom is in recognizing our own ignorance.

Nothing is so well learned as that which is discovered.

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

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.

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