Socrates Quotes

Biography: Socrates is known for being a foundational figure in Western philosoph... more Biography: Socrates is known for being a foundational figure in Western philosophy. An Athenian philosopher during the 5th century BCE, he is famed for his method of inquiry known as the Socratic method, which involves asking probing questions to stimulate critical thinking and illuminate ideas. His thoughts and methods heavily influenced his students, including Plato. less

"He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have""The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing""The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be""Prefer knowledge to wealth, for the one is transitory, the other perpetual""There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance""I know that I am intelligent because I know that I know nothing""When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser""Envy is the ulcer of the soul""Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for""Death may be the greatest of all human blessings""If you don't get what you want, you suffer; if you get what you don't want, you suffer; even when you get exactly what you want, you still suffer because you can't hold on to it forever""Only the extremely ignorant or the extremely intelligent can resist change""Be as you wish to seem""Sometimes you put walls up not to keep people out, but to see who cares enough to break them down""From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate""Worthless people live only to eat and drink; people of worth eat and drink only to live""He is richest who is content with the least, for contentment is the wealth of nature""True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us""The hottest love has the coldest end""The beginning of wisdom is a definition of terms "

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