Socrates on Wisdom Quotes

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

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

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

"The only thing I do know is that I know nothing."

"True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us."

"Knowledge is the food of the soul."

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

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

"It is better to change an opinion than to persist in a wrong one."

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

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

"Be as you wish to seem."

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

"Virtue does not come from wealth, but wealth and every other good thing which men have comes from virtue."

"Courage is knowing what not to fear."

"Remember that there is nothing stable in human affairs; therefore avoid undue elation in prosperity, or undue depression in adversity."

"Envy is the ulcer of the soul."

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

"The difficulty, my friends, is not in avoiding death, but in avoiding unrighteousness; for that runs faster than death."

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

"I pray Thee, O God, that I may be beautiful within."

"Wonder is the beginning of wisdom."

"Is it not a shame for a man to be so ignorant of his own body as to not know how to help himself?"

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

"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 hottest love has the coldest end."

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

"He who would be a good hitter must learn to take a blow."

"For the fear of death is indeed the imitation of wisdom, and not real wisdom, being an appearance of knowing the unknown."

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

"Where there is reverence there is fear, but there is not reverence everywhere that there is fear, for fear presumably has a wider extension than reverence."

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

"Be of good cheer about death, and know this of a truth, that no evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death."