Top 300 Socrates Quotes (2025 Update)
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301. “The greatest of all mysteries is the man himself.”

— Socrates

302. “Why should I resent it when an ass kicks me?”

— Socrates

303. “For who is there but you? Who not only claim to be a good man and a gentleman, for many are this, and yet have not the power of making others good. Whereas you are not only good yourself, but also the cause of goodness in others.”

— Socrates

304. “He who has lived as a true philosopher has reason to be of good cheer when he is about to die, and that after death he may hope to receive the greatest good in the other world.”

— Socrates

305. “Not I, but the city teaches.”

— Socrates

306. “Wisdom adorneth riches and casteth a shadow over poverty.”

— Socrates

307. “Listen not to a tale-bearer or slanderer, for he tells thee nothing out of good-will; but as he discovereth of the secrets of others, so he will of thine in turn.”

— Socrates

308. “Whoever would have his body supple, easy and healthful should learn to dance.”

— Socrates

309. “A man should inure himself to voluntary labor, and not give up to indulgence and pleasure, as they beget no good constitution of body nor knowledge of mind.”

— Socrates

310. “All that I know is nothing – I’m not even sure of that.”

— Socrates

311. “There is no greater magnificence than to defeat oneself. That is the magnificence...”

— Socrates

312. “A man can no more make a safe use of wealth without reason than he can of a horse without a bridle.”

— Socrates

313. “If you will be guided by me, you will make little account of Socrates, and much more of truth.”

— Socrates

314. “Through your rags I see your vanity.”

— Socrates

315. “Nobody is qualified to become a statesman who is entirely ignorant of the problem of wheat.”

— Socrates

316. “Such as thy words are, such will thy affections be esteemed; and such will thy deeds be as thy affections and such thy life as thy deeds.”

— Socrates

317. “May I consider the wise man rich, and may I have such wealth as only the self-restrained man can bear or endure.”

— Socrates

318. “If I had engaged in politics, O men of Athens, I should have perished long ago, and done no good either to you or to myself.”

— Socrates

319. “To them, I said, the truth would be literally nothing but the shadows of the images.”

— Socrates

320. “My divine sign indicates the future to me.”

— Socrates

321. “The soul is cured of its maladies by certain incantations; these incantations are beautiful reasons, from which temperance is generated in souls.”

— Socrates

322. “To give either to any public matter of interest or to any concern of my own, but I am in utter poverty by reason of my devotion to the god .”

— Socrates

323. “Often when looking at a mass of things for sale, he would say to himself, ‘How many things I have no need of!’”

— Socrates

324. “You think that upon the score of fore-knowledge and divining I am infinitely inferior to the swans. When they perceive approaching death they sing more merrily than before, because of the joy they have in going to the God they serve.”

— Socrates

325. “Remember what is unbecoming to do is also unbecoming to speak of.”

— Socrates

326. “Since I am convinced that I wrong no one, I am not likely to wrong myself.”

— Socrates

327. “My belief is that to have no wants is divine.”

— Socrates

328. “Aren’t you ashamed to be concerned so much about making all the money you can and advancing your reputation and prestige, while for truth and wisdom and the improvement of your souls you have no thought or car?”

— Socrates

329. “I will not yield to any man contrary to what is right, for fear of death, even if I should die at once for not yielding.”

— Socrates

330. “Is there anyone to whom you entrust a greater number of serious matters than your wife? And is there anyone with whom you have fewer conversations?”

— Socrates

331. “Wind buffs up empty bladders; opinion, fools.”

— Socrates

332. “It was far too cold. The second I got out I had this incredible headache, I’m just not used to it. The last time I saw snow was years and years ago.”

— Socrates

333. “If thou continuous to take delight in idle argumentation thou mayest be qualified to combat with the sophists, but will never know how to live with men.”

— Socrates

334. “Has a philosopher like you failed to discover that our country is more to be valued and higher and holier far than mother or father or any ancestor, and more to be regarded in the eyes of the gods and of men of understanding?”

— Socrates

335. “No man is capable of causing great evil without thinking he’s doing the right thing.”

— Socrates