Socrates Quotes
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Let us follow the truth whither so ever it leads.
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Beware the barrenness of a busy life.
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Nothing is so well learned as that which is discovered.
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The secret of happiness, you see, is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less.
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Only the knowledge that comes from inside is the real Knowledge.
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Be of good cheer about death and know this as a truth, that no evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.
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An honest man is always a child.
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The wise man seeks death all his life, and for this reason death is not terrifying to him.
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How many things are there which I do not want.
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No one does wrong voluntarily.
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Serenity, regularity, absence of vanity,Sincerity, simplicity, veracity, equanimity, Fixity, non-irritability, adaptability, Humility, tenacity, integrity, nobility, magnanimity, charity, generosity, purity. Practise daily these eighteen "ities" You will soon attain immortality.
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The Spirit is neither good nor bad, it runs where the wild heart leads "Wisdom begins in wonder".
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The right way to begin is to pay attention to the young, and make them just as good as possible.
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The beginning of wisdom is a definition of terms.
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It is better to be at odds with the whole world than, being one, to be at odds with myself.
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The heart of the person before you is a mirror. See there your own form.
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Creation is man's immortality and brings him nearest to the gods.
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The uninitiated are those who believe in nothing except what they can grasp in their hands, and who deny the existence of all that is invisible.
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The fewer our wants the more we resemble the Gods.
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Envy is the ulcer of the soul.
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The nearest way to glory a shortcut, as it were is to strive to be what you wish to be thought to be.
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Follow the argument wherever it leads.
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There are two kinds of disease of the soul, vice and ignorance.
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The life of which meaning one never ponders is not worth living.