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Socrates Quotes
Short Bio:
Socrates was born in 470 BC in Athena Greece. He was a classical Greek philosopher credited as one of the founders of Western philosophy.
More Notable Quotes:
"Beware the barrenness of a busy life.
"True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.
"There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance.
"Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.
"Be slow to fall into friendship, but when you are in, continue firm and constant.
"Get not your friends by bare compliments, but by giving them sensible tokens of your love.
"Get not your friends by bare compliments, but by giving them sensible tokens of your love.
"Only the extremely ignorant or the extremely intelligent can resist change.
"People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.
"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.
"Let him that would move the world, first move himself.
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