25 POWERFUL QUOTES OF SOCRATES

25 Quotes of Socrates
• The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
• 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.
• I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.
• He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.
• True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.
• The unexamined life is not worth living.
• Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.
• Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.
• True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.
• Worthless people live only to eat and drink; people of worth eat and drink only to live.
• Wisdom begins in wonder.
• Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.
• It is not living that matters, but living rightly.
• No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death. He and his are not neglected by the gods.
• A system of morality which is based on relative emotional values is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception which has nothing sound in it and nothing true.
• I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.
• Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.
• If a man is proud of his wealth, he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.
• I only wish that ordinary people had an unlimited capacity for doing harm; then they might have an unlimited power for doing good.
• The end of life is to be like God, and the soul following God will be like Him.
• If all misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be contented to take their own and depart.
• The poets are only the interpreters of the gods.
• Beware the barrenness of a busy life.
• I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.
• To know, is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge.