Socrates Quotes About Life

Quotes about: Life

• The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be.

  Socrates

  Life, Wisdom, Being Yourself

• To find yourself, think for yourself.

  Socrates

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

• When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser.

  Socrates

  Life, Words Of Wisdom, Tools

• The unexamined life is not worth living.

  Socrates

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  In Plato 'Apology' 38a

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

  Socrates

  Life, Change, Strength

• It is not living that matters, but living rightly.

  Socrates

  Life, Matter, Treatment

• Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.

  Socrates

  Inspirational, Life, Meaningful

  "Theaetetus" by Plato,

• Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.

  Socrates

  Inspirational, Life, Beauty

  Socrates, Plato, Aristotle (1967). “Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study”

• To live well and honorably and justly are the same thing.

  Socrates

  Life, Wisdom, Greek

• He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.

  Socrates

  Inspirational, Life, Happiness

  Socrates, Plato, Aristotle (1967). “Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study”

• Beware the barrenness of a busy life.

  Socrates

  Life, Time, Simple

• In childhood be modest, in youth temperate, in adulthood just, and in old age prudent.

  Socrates

  Life, Childhood, Age

• Be of good cheer about death and know this as a truth, that no evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death

  Socrates

  Life, Death, Cheer

• Whom do I call educated? First, those who manage well the circumstances they encounter day by day. Next, those who are decent and honorable in their intercourse with all men, bearing easily and good naturedly what is offensive in others and being as agreeable and reasonable to their associates as is humanly possible to be... those who hold their pleasures always under control and are not ultimately overcome by their misfortunes... those who are not spoiled by their successes, who do not desert their true selves but hold their ground steadfastly as wise and sober - minded men.

  Socrates

  Life, Success, Education

• If all misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be contented to take their own and depart.

  Socrates

  Life, Adversity, People

• The easiest and noblest way is not to be crushing others, but to be improving yourselves.

  Socrates

  Life, Crush, Way

• If a man is proud of his wealth, he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.

  Socrates

  Life, Money, Men

  Socrates, Plato, Aristotle (1967). “Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study”

• Prefer knowledge to wealth, for the one is transitory, the other perpetual.

  Socrates

  Inspirational, Life, Reading

• Be true to thine own self.

  Socrates

  Inspirational, Life, Self

• Sometimes you have to let go to see if there was anything worth holding onto.

  Socrates

  Life, Letting Go, Perspective

• Every action has its pleasures and its price.

  Socrates

  Life, Action, Pleasure

• If I tell you that I would be disobeying the god and on that account it is impossible for me to keep quiet, you won't be persuaded by me, taking it that I am ionizing. And if I tell you that it is the greatest good for a human being to have discussions every day about virtue and the other things you hear me talking about, examining myself and others, and that the unexamined life is not livable for a human being, you will be even less persuaded.

  Socrates

  Life, Talking, Would Be

• Worthless people live only to eat and drink; people of worth eat and drink only to live.

  Socrates

  Life, Drinking, Reality

  "The Skinny Budget Die". Book by Linda Goff, 2013.

• The really important thing is not to live, but to live well. And to live well meant, along with more enjoyable things in life, to live according to your principles.

  Socrates

  Life, Important, Principles

• How many things are there which I do not want.

  Socrates

  Life, Simple, Simplicity

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