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Top 25 Isocrates Quotes (2025 Update)

Isocrates Quote: “It is more important to know where you are going than to get there quickly. Do not mistake activity for achievement. Remember that there is nothing stable in human affairs, therefore avoid undue elation in prosperity or undue depression in adversity.”

1. “It is more important to know where you are going than to get there quickly. Do not mistake activity for achievement. Remember that there is nothing stable in human affairs, therefore avoid undue elation in prosperity or undue depression in adversity.”

Isocrates Quote: “Democracy destroys itself because it abuses its right to freedom and equality. Because it teaches its citizens to consider audacity as a right, lawlessness as a freedom, abrasive speech as equality, and anarchy as progress.”

2. “Democracy destroys itself because it abuses its right to freedom and equality. Because it teaches its citizens to consider audacity as a right, lawlessness as a freedom, abrasive speech as equality, and anarchy as progress.”

Isocrates Quote: “It is more important to know where you are going than to get there quickly. Do not mistake activity for achievement.”

3. “It is more important to know where you are going than to get there quickly. Do not mistake activity for achievement.”

Isocrates Quote: “Consider that nothing in human life is stable; for then you will not exult overmuch in prosperity, nor grieve overmuch in adversity. Rejoice over the good things which come to you, but grieve in moderation over the evils which befall you.”

4. “Consider that nothing in human life is stable; for then you will not exult overmuch in prosperity, nor grieve overmuch in adversity. Rejoice over the good things which come to you, but grieve in moderation over the evils which befall you.”

Isocrates Quote: “So far has Athens left the rest of mankind behind in thought and expression that her pupils have become the teachers of the world, and she has made the name of Hellas distinctive no longer of race but of intellect, and the title of Hellene a badge of education rather than of common descent.”

5. “So far has Athens left the rest of mankind behind in thought and expression that her pupils have become the teachers of the world, and she has made the name of Hellas distinctive no longer of race but of intellect, and the title of Hellene a badge of education rather than of common descent.”

Isocrates Quote: “Be gracious to all men, but choose the best to be your friends.”

6. “Be gracious to all men, but choose the best to be your friends.”

Isocrates Quote: “Guard yourself against accusations, even if they are false; for the multitude are ignorant of the truth and look only to reputation.”

7. “Guard yourself against accusations, even if they are false; for the multitude are ignorant of the truth and look only to reputation.”

Isocrates Quote: “Spend your leisure time in cultivating an ear attentive to discourse, for in this way you will find that you learn with ease what others have found out with difficulty.”

8. “Spend your leisure time in cultivating an ear attentive to discourse, for in this way you will find that you learn with ease what others have found out with difficulty.”

Isocrates Quote: “Let there be but two occasions for speech – when the subject is one which you thoroughly know and when it is one on which you are compelled to speak. On these occasions alone is speech better than silence; on all others, it is better to be silent than to speak.”

9. “Let there be but two occasions for speech – when the subject is one which you thoroughly know and when it is one on which you are compelled to speak. On these occasions alone is speech better than silence; on all others, it is better to be silent than to speak.”

Isocrates Quote: “Regard as your most faithful friends, not those who praise everything you say or do, but those who criticize your mistakes.”

10. “Regard as your most faithful friends, not those who praise everything you say or do, but those who criticize your mistakes.”

Isocrates Quote: “We should not call a city happy because it attracts masses of citizens from everywhere; a fortunate city is one in which the race of the original inhabitants is best preserved.”

11. “We should not call a city happy because it attracts masses of citizens from everywhere; a fortunate city is one in which the race of the original inhabitants is best preserved.”

Isocrates Quote: “Of all our possessions, wisdom alone is imortal.”

12. “Of all our possessions, wisdom alone is imortal.”

Isocrates Quote: “Whetstones are not themselves able to cut, but make iron sharp and capable of cutting.”

13. “Whetstones are not themselves able to cut, but make iron sharp and capable of cutting.”

Isocrates Quote: “Under that democracy, license was not confounded with freedom. Political ‘equality’ has been understood in two senses: as meaning either that all are to share absolutely alike, or that every man is to receive his due. Our ancestors preferred that ‘equality’ which does not efface the distinction between merit and worthlessness.”

14. “Under that democracy, license was not confounded with freedom. Political ‘equality’ has been understood in two senses: as meaning either that all are to share absolutely alike, or that every man is to receive his due. Our ancestors preferred that ‘equality’ which does not efface the distinction between merit and worthlessness.”

Isocrates Quote: “Abhor flatterers as you would deceivers; for both, if trusted, injure those who trust them. If you admit as friends men who seek your favor for the lowest ends, your life will be lacking in friends who will risk your displeasure for the highest good.”

15. “Abhor flatterers as you would deceivers; for both, if trusted, injure those who trust them. If you admit as friends men who seek your favor for the lowest ends, your life will be lacking in friends who will risk your displeasure for the highest good.”

Isocrates Quote: “Oratory is good only if it has the qualities of fitness for the occasion, propriety of style, and originality of treatment, while in the case of letters there is no such need whatsoever.”

16. “Oratory is good only if it has the qualities of fitness for the occasion, propriety of style, and originality of treatment, while in the case of letters there is no such need whatsoever.”

Isocrates Quote: “It is not fitting that the evil produced by men should be imputed to things; let those bear the blame who make an ill use of things in themselves good.”

17. “It is not fitting that the evil produced by men should be imputed to things; let those bear the blame who make an ill use of things in themselves good.”

Isocrates Quote: “Always when you are about to say anything, first weigh it in your mind; for with many the tongue outruns the thought.”

18. “Always when you are about to say anything, first weigh it in your mind; for with many the tongue outruns the thought.”

Isocrates Quote: “If all who are engaged in the profession of education were willing to state the facts instead of making greater promises than they can possibly fulfill, they would not be in such bad repute with the lay- public.”

19. “If all who are engaged in the profession of education were willing to state the facts instead of making greater promises than they can possibly fulfill, they would not be in such bad repute with the lay- public.”

Isocrates Quote: “Conduct yourself towards your parents as you would have your children conduct themselves towards you.”

20. “Conduct yourself towards your parents as you would have your children conduct themselves towards you.”

Isocrates Quote: “But I marvel when I observe these men setting themselves up as instructors of youth who cannot see that they are applying the analogy of an art with hard and fast rules to a creative process.”

21. “But I marvel when I observe these men setting themselves up as instructors of youth who cannot see that they are applying the analogy of an art with hard and fast rules to a creative process.”

Isocrates Quote: “Absolute power is universally coveted, though all know that an absolute ruler has an anxious life and usually a violent death.”

22. “Absolute power is universally coveted, though all know that an absolute ruler has an anxious life and usually a violent death.”

Isocrates Quote: “If you be a lover of instruction, you will be well instructed.”

23. “If you be a lover of instruction, you will be well instructed.”

Isocrates Quote: “I maintain, then, that we should make peace, not only with the Chians, the Rhodians, the Byzantines and the Coans, but with all mankind...”

24. “I maintain, then, that we should make peace, not only with the Chians, the Rhodians, the Byzantines and the Coans, but with all mankind...”

Isocrates Quote: “It is up-hill work to oppose our prejudices; we have a democracy, but freedom of speech is enjoyed only by the most foolish members of this Assembly and by the comic poets in the theatre. As, however, I am not here to court your votes, I shall say what I think...”

25. “It is up-hill work to oppose our prejudices; we have a democracy, but freedom of speech is enjoyed only by the most foolish members of this Assembly and by the comic poets in the theatre. As, however, I am not here to court your votes, I shall say what I think...”

Isocrates Quote: “It was the principle of this Court that deterrent laws, however strict, are useless without positive moral discipline; that the happiness of citizens depends, not on having the walls of their porticoes covered with laws, but on having justice in their hearts.”

26. “It was the principle of this Court that deterrent laws, however strict, are useless without positive moral discipline; that the happiness of citizens depends, not on having the walls of their porticoes covered with laws, but on having justice in their hearts.”

Isocrates Quote: “Nevertheless, it is not fair to decry strength because there are persons who assault people whom they encounter, nor to traduce courage because there are those who slay men wantonly, nor in general to transfer to things the depravity of men, but rather to put the blame on the men themselves who misuse the good things, and who, by the very powers which might help their fellow-countrymen, endeavor to do them harm.”

27. “Nevertheless, it is not fair to decry strength because there are persons who assault people whom they encounter, nor to traduce courage because there are those who slay men wantonly, nor in general to transfer to things the depravity of men, but rather to put the blame on the men themselves who misuse the good things, and who, by the very powers which might help their fellow-countrymen, endeavor to do them harm.”

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