Socrates Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“The unexamined life is not worth living.”

“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.”

“Let him that would move the world first move himself.”

“From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate.”

“One who is injured ought not to return the injury, for on no account can it be right to do an injustice; and it is not right to return an injury, or to do evil to any man, however much we have suffered from him.”

“Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.”

“He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.”

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

“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.”