Socrates Quotes
+1By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you’ll be happy. If you get a bad one, you’ll become a philosopher.
- Socrates
+1As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take the course he will. He will be sure to repent.
- Socrates
+1The noblest worship is to make yourself as good and as just as you can.
- Socrates
+1As for me, all I know is that I know nothing.
- Socrates
+1Envy is the ulcer of the soul.
- Socrates
+1The fewer our wants, the nearer we resemble the gods.
- Socrates
+1How many things are there which I do not want.
- Socrates
+1Our prayers should be for blessings in general, for God knows best what is good for us.
- Socrates
+1When Socrates was asked where he came from, he said that he was a citizen of the world. He regarded himself as a citizen of the universe.
- Socrates
+1He is not only idle who does nothing, but he is idle who might be better employed.
- Socrates
+1I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
- Socrates
+1The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.
- Socrates
+1Man must rise above the Earth to the top of the atmosphere and beyond for only thus will he fully understand the world in which he lives.
- Socrates
+1A library, to modify the famous metaphor of Socrates, should be the delivery room for the birth of ideas a place where history comes to life.
- Socrates
+1From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate.
- Socrates
+1He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.
- Socrates
+1Contentment is natural wealth; luxury, artificial poverty.
- Socrates
+1Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.
- Socrates
+1It is best and easiest not to discredit others but to prepare oneself to be as good as possible.
- Socrates
+1By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you’ll be happy. If you get a bad one, you’ll become a philosopher.
- Socrates
+1Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.
- Socrates
+1I am very conscious that I am not wise at all.
- Socrates
0Be slow to fall into friendship, but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.
- Socrates
0Beware the barrenness of a busy life.
- Socrates
0The unexamined life is not worth living.
- Socrates