15 Best Socrates Quotes to Live by

 1. “Beware the barrenness of a busy life.” – Socrates 

2. “Nature has given us two ears, two eyes, and but one tongue-to the end that we should hear and see more than we speak.” – Socrates 

3. “Let him that would move the world first move himself.” – Socrates

4. “Be as you wish to seem.” – Socrates

5. “To know is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge.” – Socrates

6. “An unexamined life is not worth living.” – Socrates

7. “To find yourself, think for yourself.” – Socrates

8. “The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.” – Socrates

9. “Employ your time in improving yourself by other men’s writings so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for.” – Socrates

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

11. “Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.” – Socrates

12. “Know thyself.” – Socrates

13. “Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty.” – Socrates

14. “He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.” – Socrates

15. “It is not living that matters, but living rightly.” – Socrates

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Deep Inspirational Quotes That Will Make You Think About life

Better to have, and not need, than to need, and not have. Franz Kafka

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars. Oscar Wilde

You are free, and that is why you are lost. Franz Kafka

One of the first signs of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die. Franz Kafka

From a certain point onward there is no longer any turning back. That is the point that must be reached. Franz Kafka

We shall not cease from exploration. And the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time. T.S. Eliot

What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from. T.S. Eliot

Unless you believe, you will not understand. Samuel Beckett

You will always find an answer in the sound of water. Zhuangzi 

You attract what you are, not what you want. Unknown

I focused so hard on what I wanted that I lost sight of what I deserved. Unknown

Sometimes when things are falling apart they may actually be falling into place. Unknown

The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why. Mark Twain

Too much sanity may be madness and the maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be. Miguel de Cervantes

Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness. Samuel Beckett

The less effort, the faster and more powerful you will be. Bruce Lee

Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again. C.S. Lewis

You must realize that one day you will die. Until then you are worthless. Chuck Palahniuk

Do not think you will necessarily be aware of your own enlightenment. Dogen

Do not judge, and you will never be mistaken. Jean Jacques Rousseau

Do not ask for what you will wish you had not got. Lucius Annaeus Seneca

If you suddenly stumble upon the right door, you will not be able to recognize that it is right. Osho

You have to die a few times before you can really live. Charles Bukowski

Live so that you can at least get the benefit of the doubt. Kin Hubbard

To find yourself, think for yourself. Socrates

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