Socrates Quotes Page 2

“Mankind is made of two kinds of people: wise people who know they're fools, and fools who think they are wise.”

“May the inward and outward man be as one.”

“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.”

“Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.”

“One should never do wrong in return, nor mistreat any man, no matter how one has been mistreated by him.”

“Prefer knowledge to wealth, for the one is transitory, the other perpetual.”

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

“Strong minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, weak minds discuss people.”

“The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise. Children are now tyrants, not the servants of their households. They no longer rise when elders enter the room. They contradict their parents, chatter before company, gobble up dainties at the table, cross their legs, and tyrannize their teachers.”

“The greatest blessing granted to mankind come by way of madness, which is a divine gift.”

“The greatest way to live with honour in this world is to be what we pretend to be.”

“The highest form of human excellence is to question.”

“The hottest love has the coldest end.”

“The hour of departure has arrived, and we go our ways — I to die, and you to live. Which is better God only knows.”

“The mind is everything; what you think you become.”

“The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.”

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

“The secret to change is to focus all of your energy not on fighting the old, but on building the new.”

“The things that screw us up the most in life is the picture in our heads of what it’s supposed to be.”

“The unexamined life is not worth living.”

“The value of a man is measured in the number of those who stand beside him, not those who follow.”

“There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance.”

“They are not only idle who do nothing, but they are idle also who might be better employed.”

“Think not those faithful who praise all thy words and actions; but those who kindly reprove thy faults.”

“Those who are hardest to love need it the most.”

“Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat.”

“To find yourself, think for yourself.”

“To move the world, we must first move ourselves.”

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

“Understanding a question is half an answer.”