"The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing."
- Socrates
Education
"The unexamined life is not worth living."
- Socrates
Reflection
"I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think"
- Socrates
Education
"There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance."
- Socrates
Knowledge
"Wonder is the beginning of wisdom."
- Socrates
Wisdom
"To find yourself, think for yourself."
- Socrates
Self-awareness
"Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel."
- Socrates
Education
"Know thyself."
- Socrates
Self-awareness
"Prefer knowledge to wealth, for the one is transitory, the other perpetual."
- Socrates
Knowledge
"We cannot live better than in seeking to become better."
- Socrates
Personal Growth
"Strong minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, weak minds discuss people."
- Socrates
Wisdom
"He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have."
- Socrates
Contentment
"Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others."
- Socrates
Morality
"The secret of happiness, you see, is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less."
- Socrates
Happiness
"Let him who would move the world first move himself."
- Socrates
Motivation
"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
Self-improvement
"I am not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world."
- Socrates
Philosophy
"Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle."
- Ian Maclaren
Compassion
"Be slow to fall into friendship, but when you are in, continue firm and constant."
- Socrates
Relationships
"If you don't get what you want, you suffer; if you get what you don't want, you suffer; even when you get exactly what you want, you still suffer because you can't hold on to it forever. Your mind is your predicament. It wants to be free of change. Free of pain, free of the obligations of life and death. But change is law and no amount of pretending will alter that reality."
- Socrates
Philosophy
"Every action has its pleasures and its price."
- Socrates
Philosophy
"Understanding a question is half an answer."
- Socrates
Knowledge
"Envy is the ulcer of the soul."
- Socrates
Morality
"Death may be the greatest of all human blessings."
- Socrates
Philosophy
"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
Fitness
"The hour of departure has arrived, and we go our separate ways, I to die, and you to live. Which of these two is better only God knows."
- Socrates
Philosophy
"Sometimes you put walls up not to keep people out, but to see who cares enough to break them down."
- Socrates
Relationships
"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
Philosophy