Top 20 Socrates Quotes of Life

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Popular Greek (Athenian) philosopher "Socrates" credited as one of the founders of Western philosophy

Top 20 Socrates Quotes

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

Beware the barrenness of a busy life.
Socrates

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.
Socrates

To know, is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge.
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Our prayers should be for blessings in general, for God knows best what is good for us.
Socrates

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

I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean.
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From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate.
Socrates

Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.
Socrates

He is a man of courage who does not run away, but remains at his post and fights against the enemy.
Socrates

One who is injured ought not to return the injury, for on no account can it be right to do an injustice; and it is not right to return an injury, or to do evil to any man, however much we have suffered from him.
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Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.
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All men's souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine.
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The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.
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False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.
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I was really too honest a man to be a politician and live.
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Beauty is the bait which with delight allures man to enlarge his kind.
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If a man is proud of his wealth, he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.
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Where there is reverence there is fear, but there is not reverence everywhere that there is fear, because fear presumably has a wider extension than reverence.
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I was really too honest a man to be a politician and live.
Socrates