Socrates quotes selection.

 

"If you want to be wrong then follow the masses." 

"Awareness of ignorance is the beginning of wisdom." 

"The secret of happiness, you see, is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less." 

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

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

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

"I call myself a Peaceful Warrior... because the battles we fight are on the inside." 

"When you want success as badly as you want the air, then you will get it. There is no other secret of success." 

"Serenity, regularity, absence of vanity, sincerity, simplicity, veracity, equanimity, Fixity, non-irritability, adaptability, Humility, tenacity, integrity, nobility, magnanimity, charity, generosity, purity. Practise daily these eighteen "ities" You will soon attain immortality." 

"To find yourself, think for yourself." 

"Silence is a profound melody, for those who can hear it above all the noise." 

"This is a universe that does not favor the timid." 

"The unexamined life is not worth living." 

"It is better to make a mistake with full force of your being than to carefully avoid mistakes with a trembling spirit." 

"The years wrinkle our skin, but lack of enthusiasm wrinkles our soul." 

"We are what we think we are" 

"I know you won't believe me, but the highest form of Human Excellence is to question oneself and others." 

"How can you call a man free when his pleasures rule over him." 

"Our lives are but specks of dust falling through the fingers of time. Like sands of the hourglass, so are the days of our lives." 

"Why should we pay so much attention to what the majority thinks?" 

"Marry or marry not, in any either case you'll regret it" 

"Contentment is natural wealth." 

"The happiest people on earth don't have the best of everything... they make the best of everything."

"You don't know what you don't know." 

"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."