31+ Famous Socrates quotes to achieve wisdom in life

31+ Famous Socrates quotes to achieve wisdom in life. Socrates is a Greek philosopher and one of the founders of western philosophy and became known for his contribution to the ethics field. May these inspiring quotes from the best Socrates words be your tool to achieve knowledge and wisdom in everyone's life.

1. Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune nor too scornful in misfortune. - Socrates

2. Be as you wish to seem. - Socrates

3. False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil. - Socrates

4. No man undertakes a trade he has not learned, even the meanest; yet everyone thinks himself sufficiently qualified for the hardest of all trades - that of government. - Socrates

5. True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us. - Socrates

6. All men's souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine. - Socrates

7. The hour of departure has arrived and we go our ways; I to die, and you to live. Which is better? Only God knows. - Socrates

8. False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil. - Socrates

9. From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate. - Socrates

10. Call no man unhappy until he is married. - Socrates

11. The hottest love has the coldest end. - Socrates

12. If a man is proud of his wealth, he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it. - Socrates

13. The poets are only the interpreters of the Gods. - Socrates

14. Our prayers should be for blessings in general, for God knows best what is good for us. - Socrates

15. Happiness is unrepentant pleasure. - Socrates

16. The unexamined life is not worth living. - Socrates

17. Wonder is the beginning of wisdom. - Socrates

18. 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

19. Be slow to fall into friendship, but when you are in, continue firm and constant. - Socrates

20. The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance. - Socrates

21. Death may be the greatest of all human blessings. - Socrates

22. Strong minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, weak minds discuss people. - Socrates

23. Sometimes you put walls up not to keep people out, but to see who cares enough to break them down. - Socrates

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

25. The secret of happiness, you see, is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less. - Socrates

26. When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser. - Socrates

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

28. The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be. - Socrates

29. He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature. - Socrates

30. To move the world we must move. - Socrates

31. Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart’s desire; the other is to get it. - Socrates

32. There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance. - Socrates

33. Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle. - Socrates

34. He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have. - Socrates

35. No man has the right to be an amateur in the matter of physical training. It is a shame for a man to grow old without seeing the beauty and strength of which his body is capable. - Socrates

36. Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty. - Socrates

37. Prefer knowledge to wealth, for the one is transitory, the other perpetual. - Socrates

38. We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light. - Socrates

39. Beware the barrenness of a busy life. - Socrates

40. Understanding a question is half an answer. - Socrates

41. Envy is the ulcer of the soul. - Socrates

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

43. Be nicer than necessary to everyone you meet. Everyone is fighting some kind of battle. - Socrates

44. Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior. - Socrates

45. If you want to be a good saddler, saddle the worst horse; for if you can tame one, you can tame all. - Socrates

46. If a man comes to the door of poetry untouched by the madness of the Muses, believing that technique alone will make him a good poet, he and his sane compositions never reach perfection, but are utterly eclipsed by the performances of the inspired madman. - Socrates

47. The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms. - Socrates

48. The easiest and noblest way is not to be crushing others, but to be improving yourselves. - Socrates

49. In all of us, even in good men, there is a lawless wild-beast nature, which peers out in sleep. - Socrates

50. If all our misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be content to take their own and depart. - Socrates

51. Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat. - Socrates

52. The greatest blessing granted to mankind come by way of madness, which is a divine gift. - Socrates

53. Children nowadays are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannies their teachers. - Socrates

54. I know you won't believe me, but the highest form of Human Excellence is to question oneself and others. - Socrates

55. 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

56. The highest realms of thought are impossible to reach without first attaining an understanding of compassion. - Socrates

57. The mind is everything; what you think you become. - Socrates
58. Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.  - Socrates

59. He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god. - Socrates

60. Think not those faithful who praise all thy words and actions; but those who kindly reprove thy faults. - Socrates (Updated: July 4, 2019)