“The unexamined life is not worth living for a human being.”
– Socrates
“If you want to be wrong then follow the masses.”
– Socrates
“The years wrinkle our skin, but lack of enthusiasm wrinkles our soul.”
– Socrates
“He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.”
– Socrates
“The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be.”
– Socrates
“I don’t care what people say about me. I do care about my mistakes. ”
– Socrates
“I am not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world.”
– Socrates
“Know thyself.”
– Socrates
“Prefer knowledge to wealth, for the one is transitory, the other perpetual.”
– Socrates
“Employ your time in improving yourself by other men’s writings so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for.”
– Socrates
“True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.”
– Socrates
“Sometimes you have to let go to see if there was anything worth holding onto.”
– Socrates
“Silence is a profound melody, for those who can hear it above all the noise.”
– Socrates
“An honest man is always a child.”
– Socrates
“Wonder is the feeling of a philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.”
– Socrates
“Are you not ashamed of your eagerness to possess as much wealth, reputation, and honors as possible, while you do not care for nor give thought to wisdom or truth, or the best possible state of your soul?”
– Socrates
“No one can teach, if by teaching we mean the transmission of knowledge, in any mechanical fashion, from one person to another. The most that can be done is that one person who is more knowledgeable than another can, by asking a series of questions, stimulate the other to think, and so cause him to learn for himself.”
– Socrates
“To believe without evidence and demonstration is an act of ignorance and folly.”
– Socrates
“I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think.”
– Socrates
“Do not be angry with me if I tell you the truth.”
– Socrates
“Like cattle, always looking downward with their heads bent toward the ground and the banquet tables, they feed, fatten, and fornicate.”
– Socrates
“They wander their whole life long, neither ever looking upward to the truth above them nor rising toward it, nor tasting pure and lasting pleasures.”
– Socrates
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