"The unexamined life is not worth living."
SO
Socrates
50 quotes
Quotes by Socrates
"The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing."
"The unexamined life is not worth living."
"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."
"True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us."
"Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm and constant."
"The children now love luxury. They have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise."
"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?"
"The greatest blessing granted to mankind come by way of madness, which is a divine gift."
"I only know that I know nothing"
"Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued."
"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?"
"Wonder is the beginning of wisdom."
"True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing."
"The greatest blessing granted to mankind come by way of madness, which is a divine gift."
"The unexamined life is not worth living."
"Do not trouble about those who practice philosophy, whether they are good or bad; but examine the thing itself well and carefully. And if philosophy appears a bad thing to you, turn every man from it, not only your sons; but if it appears to you such as I think it to be, take courage, pursue it, and practice it, as the saying is, 'both you and your house."
"He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature."
"I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think"
"The unexamined life is not worth living."