Collection of golden quotes by famous Green philosopher Socrates. He is credited as one of the founders of Western philosophy, and as being the first moral philosopher of the Western ethical tradition of thought.
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Golden Quotes of Socrates
Socrates was a scholar, teacher and philosopher born in ancient Greece. His Socratic method laid the groundwork for Western systems of logic and philosophy. Let us check his wise quotes.
Be slow to fall into friendship but when thou art in continue firm and constant.
Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.
Beauty is the bait which with delight allures man to enlarge his kind.
Our prayers should be for blessings in general for God knows best what is good for us.
He is a man of courage who does not run away but remains at his post and fights against the enemy.
Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.
Ordinary people seem not to realize that those who really apply themselves in the right way to philosophy are directly and of their own accord preparing themselves for dying and death.
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.
Be slow to fall into friendship but when thou art in continue firm and constant.
Our prayers should be for blessings in general for God knows best what is good for us.
The end of life is to be like God and the soul following God will be like Him.
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.
Our prayers should be for blessings in general for God knows best what is good for us.
My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you’ll be happy if not you’ll become a philosopher.
Not life but good life is to be chiefly valued.
The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.
I only wish that ordinary people had an unlimited capacity for doing harm then they might have an unlimited power for doing good.
The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be.
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.
True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.
Beware the barrenness of a busy life.
Not life but good life is to be chiefly valued.
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.
The end of life is to be like God and the soul following God will be like Him.
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.
As to marriage or celibacy let a man take which course he will he will be sure to repent.
All men’s souls are immortal but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine.
Employ your time in improving yourself by other men’s writings so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.
He is richest who is content with the least for content is the wealth of nature.
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.
I only wish that ordinary people had an unlimited capacity for doing harm then they might have an unlimited power for doing good.
Our prayers should be for blessings in general for God knows best what is good for us.
Employ your time in improving yourself by other men’s writings so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.
My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you’ll be happy if not you’ll become a philosopher.
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
Wisdom begins in wonder.
True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.
True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life ourselves and the world around us.
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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