Socrates on Truth Quotes

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

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

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

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

"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."

"Be as you wish to seem."

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

"Envy is the ulcer of the soul."

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

"To find yourself, think for yourself."

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

"Wonder is the beginning of wisdom."

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

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

"False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil."

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

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

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

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

"Wisdom begins in wonder."

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

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

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

"The unexamined life is not worth living."

"The hottest love has the coldest end."

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

"Every action has its pleasures and its price."

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

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