Socrates Quotes About Philosophy

Quotes about: Philosophy

• The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.

  Socrates

  Wise, Wisdom, Philosophy

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

  Socrates

  Inspirational, Wisdom, Philosophy

• Do not be angry with me if I tell you the truth

  Socrates

  Philosophy, Angry, Ifs

• The unexamined life is not worth living.

  Socrates

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  In Plato 'Apology' 38a

• When you want wisdom and insight as badly as you want to breathe, it is then you shall have it.

  Socrates

  Wisdom, Philosophy, Wish

• An honest man is always a child.

  Socrates

  Children, Philosophy, Men

• Get married, in any case. If you happen to get a good mate, you will be happy; if a bad one, you will become philosophical, which is a fine thing in itself.

  Socrates

  Philosophy, Philosophical, Married

• 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

  Death, Philosophy, People

• The soul is pure when it leaves the body and drags nothing bodily with it, by virtue of having no willing association with the body in life but avoiding it.......Practicing philosophy in the right way is a training to die easily.

  Socrates

  Death, Philosophy, Soul

• This sense of wonder is the mark of the philosopher. Philosophy indeed has no other origin.

  Socrates

  Philosophy, Philosopher, Wonder

  Quoted in PlatoTheaetetus,150c (translated by F M Cornford).

• Besides, it is a shame to let yourself grow old through neglect before seeing how you can develop the maximum beauty and strength of body; and you can have this experience if your are negligent, because these things don't normally happen by themselves.

  Socrates

  Philosophy, Medicine, Psychology

• Men of Athens, I honor and love you; but I shall obey God rather than you, and while I have life and strength I shall never cease from the practice and teaching of philosophy.

  Socrates

  Philosophy, Love You, Teaching

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