Thursday, 4 August 2011

Quotes of Socrates


"The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing." 


"The unexamined life is not worth living." 


"Wonder is the beginning of wisdom." 


"To find yourself, think for yourself." 


"Be slow to fall into friendship, but when you are in, continue firm and constant."


"I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think" 


"By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you’ll become happy; if you get a bad one, you’ll become a philosopher." 


"The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance." 


"Know thyself." 


"Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel." 


"Death may be the greatest of all human blessings." 


"Every action has its pleasures and its price." 


"Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle." 


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


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


"We cannot live better than in seeking to become better." 


"From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate." 


"The hottest love has the coldest end." 


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


"Be as you wish to seem." 


"We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light." 


"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." 


"Living well and beautifully and justly are all one thing." 


"All men's souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine." 


"To move the world we must move ourselves." 



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