Socrates
Quotes
A classical Greek philosopher credited as one of the founders of Western philosophy. Known for his Socratic method, he believed that the path to wisdom lies in asking probing questions and engaging in critical thinking. He championed the pursuit of truth, virtue, and the development of moral character. His dialogues, preserved by his students, continue to shape philosophical discourse, urging individuals to examine their lives and seek knowledge.
Socrates
Quotes
A classical Greek philosopher credited as one of the founders of Western philosophy. Known for his Socratic method, he believed that the path to wisdom lies in asking probing questions and engaging in critical thinking. He championed the pursuit of truth, virtue, and the development of moral character. His dialogues, preserved by his students, continue to shape philosophical discourse, urging individuals to examine their lives and seek knowledge.
Awareness of ignorance is the beginning of wisdom.
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.
Do it because it's in your heart. Not because you want something in return. Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.
The wise man seeks death all his life, and for this reason death is not terrifying to him.
Wisdom adorneth riches and casteth a shadow over poverty.
The uninitiated are those who believe in nothing except what they can grasp in their hands, and who deny the existence of all that is invisible.
Our prayers should be for blessings in general, for God knows best what is good for us.
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.
An honest man is always a child.
Let the questions be the curriculum.
The young people of today think of nothing but themselves. They have no reverence for parents or old age. They are impatient of all restraint. They talk as if they alone knew everything and what passes for wisdom with us is foolishness with them. As for girls, they are forward, immodest and unwomanly in speech, behaviour and dress.
The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be.
No citizen has a right to be an amateur in the matter of physical training... what a disgrace it is for a man to grow old without ever seeing the beauty and strength of which his body is capable.
Obligation sends the children to bed on time, but love tucks the covers in around their necks and passes out kisses and hugs. Yesterday is about experience; tomorrow is about hope; today is about transitioning from one to the other. The happiest people on earth don't have the best of everything... they make the best of everything I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
Silence is a profound melody, for those who can hear it above all the noise.
I call myself a Peaceful Warrior... because the battles we fight are on the inside.
The first key to greatness is to be in reality what we appear to be.
True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing. And in knowing that you know nothing, that makes you the smartest of all.
There is no learning without remembering.
There are two kinds of disease of the soul, vice and ignorance.
Envy is the ulcer of the soul.
If he who does not know kept silent, discord would cease.
