quotes by Socrates

"The unexamined life is not worth living."
— Socrates

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

"Wonder is the beginning of wisdom."
— Socrates

"εν οίδα οτι ουδέν οίδα (nescio scio)
(I know that I know nothing)"
— Socrates

"The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance."
— Socrates

""I drank what?!""
— Socrates

"To find yourself, think for yourself."
— Socrates

"Know thyself."
— Socrates

"Death may be the greatest of all human blessings."
— Socrates

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

"“The shortest and surest way to live with honor in the world is to be in reality what we would appear to be.”"
— Socrates

"I am not an Athenian nor a Greek, but a citizen of the world."
— Socrates

"Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat."
— Socrates

"My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a philosopher."
— Socrates

"Every action has its pleasures and its price."
— Socrates

""We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is a habit.""
— Socrates

"Well, although I do not suppose that either of us know anything really beautiful & good, I am better off than he is- for he knows nothing & thinks that he knows; I neither know nor think that I know."
— Socrates

"ΓΝΩΘΙ ΣΑΥΤΟN
(Gnosce te ipsum - Know yourself)
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— Socrates

"Children nowadays are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannise their teachers."
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— Socrates

""The more I learn the more I know I know nothing"
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— Socrates