Socrates

“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.”

— Socrates

“Our prayers should be for blessings in general, for God knows best what is good for us.”

— Socrates

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

— Socrates

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

— Socrates

“Beauty is the bait which with delight allures man to enlarge his kind.”

— Socrates

“Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.”

— Socrates

“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.”

— Socrates

“All men's souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine.”

— Socrates

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

— Socrates

“Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.”

— Socrates

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

— Socrates

“My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy if not, you'll become a philosopher.”

— Socrates

“I only wish that ordinary people had an unlimited capacity for doing harm then they might have an unlimited power for doing good.”

— Socrates

“To know, is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge.”

— Socrates

“He is a man of courage who does not run away, but remains at his post and fights against the enemy.”

— Socrates

“I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.”

— Socrates

“Wisdom begins in wonder.”

— Socrates

“The unexamined life is not worth living.”

— Socrates

“Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.”

— Socrates

“The end of life is to be like God, and the soul following God will be like Him.”

— Socrates