Socrates Quotes
Browse 16 quotes from Socrates, featuring insights on success, personal growth, leadership, mindset, and achievement.
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“Eat to live, do not live to eat.”
“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.”
“Think for yourself and question everything.”
“To find yourself, think for yourself.”
“He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.”
“Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty.”
“Know thyself.”
“The unexamined life is not worth living.”
“Employ your time in improving yourself by other men’s writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.”
“Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.”
“The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.”
“Let him that would move the world first move himself.”
“I know that I know nothing.”
“There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.”
“Beware the barrenness of a busy life.”
“Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.”
