Famous Quotes
145 Quotations with Socrates.
- 1. Socrates: Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat.
- 2. Socrates: Think not those faithful who praise all thy words and actions; but those who kin ...
- 3. Socrates: Get not your friends by bare compliments, but by giving them sensible tokens of ...
- 4. Socrates: Remember that there is nothing stable in human affairs; therefore avoid undue el ...
- 5. Socrates: Regard your good name as the richest jewel you can possibly be possessed of - fo ...
- 6. Socrates: I do nothing but go about persuading you all, old and young alike, not to take t ...
- 7. Socrates: The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.
- 8. Socrates: True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.
- 9. Socrates: And in knowing that you know nothing, that makes you the smartest of all.
- 10. Socrates: The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be ...
- 11. Socrates: As for me, all I know is that I know nothing.
- 12. Francis Quarles: Socrates called beauty a short-lived tyranny; Plato, a privilege of nature; Theo ...
- 13. Socrates: The end of life is to be like God, and the soul following God will be like Him.
- 14. Socrates: Wind buffs up empty bladders; opinion, fools.
- 15. Socrates: If a man is proud of his wealth, he should not be praised until it is known how ...
- 16. Socrates: He is richest who is content with the least.
- 17. Socrates: He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he wo ...
- 18. Ambrose Bierce: PLATONIC, adj. Pertaining to the philosophy of Socrates. Platonic Love is a fool ...
- 19. Socrates: Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, an ...
- 20. Unknown: Socrates seems to be the philosophical napkin with which the ensuing cultural th ...