Socrates: Immortals Quotes
Socrates was a Greek philosopher from Athens who is credited as a founder of Western philosophy and the first moral philosopher of the Western ethical tradition of thought.
“Strong minds discuss ideas average minds discuss events weak minds discuss people.”
“Be kind. For everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.”
“He who was not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.”
“The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing. The more i know, the more i realize i know nothing.”
“The unexamined life is not worth living.”
“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.”
“Let him who would move the world first move himself.”
“Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.”
“The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.”
“Preferred knowledge to wealth, for the one is transitory, the other perpetual.”
“Mankind is made of two kinds of people; wise people who know they’re fools, and fools who think they are wise.”
“Fear of women love more than hate the man.”
“Understanding a question is half an answer.”
“Thou should just eat to live, not live to eat.”
“Those who are hardest to love need it the most.”
“I know you won’t believe me, but the highest form of human excellence is to question oneself and others.”
“Be as you wish to seem.”
“We cannot live better than in seeking to become better.”
“I would rather die having spoken after my manner, than speak in your manner and live.”
“Smart people learn from everything and everyone, average people from their experiences, stupid people already have all the answers.”
“In childhood be modest, in youth temperate, in adulthood just, and in old age prudent.”
“Remember that there is nothing stable in human affairs; therefore avoid undue elation in prosperity, or undue depression in adversity.”
“It is better to suffer wrong than to do wrong.”
“No man is capable of causing great evil without thinking he’s doing the right thing.”
