Socrates on Truth Quotes

"The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear."

"He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have."

"The secret of happiness, you see, is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less."

"One who is injured ought not to return the injury, for on no account can it be right to do an injustice."

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

"The mind is everything; what you think you become."

"Nature has given us two ears, two eyes, and but one tongue, to the end that we should hear and see more than we speak."

"Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty."

"Wonder is the beginning of wisdom."

"I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing."

"The hottest love has the coldest end."

"The end of life is to be like God, and the soul following God will be like Him."

"To find yourself, think for yourself."

"Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for."

"The easiest and noblest way is not to be crushing others, but to be improving yourselves."

"There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance."

"The unexamined life is not worth living."

"Virtue does not come from money, but from virtue comes money and all other good things to man."

"Be as you wish to seem."

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

"Envy is the ulcer of the soul."

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

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

"Strong minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, weak minds discuss people."

"Every action has its pleasures and its price."

"He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature."

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

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

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

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

"Wisdom begins in wonder."