Quotes By Socrates

It is never right to do wrong or to requite wrong with wrong, or when we suffer evil to defend ourselves by doing evil in return.

I am a Citizen of the World, and my Nationality is Goodwill.

People learn more on their own rather than being force fed.

True wisdom lies in one's confession about the limits of one's knowledge.

Let the questions be the curriculum.

The wise man seeks death all his life, and for this reason death is not terrifying to him.

This is a universe that does not favor the timid.

Contentment is natural wealth.

There are two kinds of disease of the soul, vice and ignorance.

The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be.

Better to do a little well, then a great deal badly.

You don't know what you don't know.

We can do nothing without the body, let us always take care that it is in the best condition to sustain us.

Every action has its pleasures and its price.

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

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.

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

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.

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

Wisdom begins in wonder.