It is better to change an opinion than to persist in a wrong one.
SOCRATESBeware the barrenness of a busy life.
More Socrates Quotes
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I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think.
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It is a disgrace to grow old through sheer carelessness before seeing what manner of man you may become by developing your bodily strength and beauty to their highest limit.
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Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat.
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As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will, he will be sure to repent.
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Employ your time in improving yourself by other men’s writings so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for.
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We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.
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Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.
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Are you not ashamed of caring so much for the making of money and for fame and prestige, when you neither think nor care about wisdom and truth and the improvement of your soul?
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The true champion of justice, if he intends to survive even for a short time, must necessarily confine himself to private life and leave politics alone.
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My plainness of speech makes them hate me, and what is their hatred but a proof that I am speaking the truth.
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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.
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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.
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Be slow to fall into friendship, but when you are in, continue firm and constant.
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Intelligent individuals learn from every thing and every one; average people, from their experiences. The stupid already have all the answers.
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Employ your time in improving yourself by other men’s writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.
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The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise.
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Nobody is qualified to become a statesman who is entirely ignorant of the problem of wheat.
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To move the world we must move ourselves.
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If all our misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be content to take their own and depart.
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Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune, nor too sorrowful in misfortune.
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Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart’s desire; the other is to get it.
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Mankind is made of two kinds of people: wise people who know they’re fools, and fools who think they are wise.
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The easiest and noblest way is not to be crushing others, but to be improving yourselves.
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I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.
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Wisdom begins in wonder.
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Now the hour to part has come. I go to die, you go to live. Which of us goes to the better lot is known to no one, except the god.
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