Socrates Quotes: Ancient Greek Wisdom

By all means, marry. If you get a good wife, you’ll become happy; if you get a bad one, you’ll become a philosopher.

An un-examined life is not worth living.

It is better to change an opinion than to persist in a wrong one.

The world is a puzzle; no need to make sense out of it.

He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.

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

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

True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.

To find yourself, think for yourself.

Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.

Falling down is not failure. Failure comes when you stay where you have fallen.