Socrates Quotes

I thought to myself: I am wiser than this man; neither of us probably knows anything that is really ...

I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.

There is one way, then, in which a man can be free from all anxiety about the fate of his soul - if ...

.. is there not one true coin for which all things ought to exchange?- and that is wisdom; and only ...

Are you not ashamed of caring so much for the making of money and for fame and prestige, when you ne...

For the poet is a light and winged and holy thing, and there is no invention in him until he has bee...

By far the greatest and most admirable form of wisdom is that needed to plan and beautify cities and...

Do not trouble about those who practice philosophy, whether they are good or bad; but examine the th...

If I save my insight, I don’t attend to weakness of eyesight.

God takes away the minds of poets, and uses them as his ministers, as he also uses diviners and holy...

Wealth does not bring about excellence, but excellence makes wealth and everything else good for men...

It is the thought, not the incidentals of expression, that essentially makes an exposition unpopular...

[n regard to Jesus believing himself inspired]This belief carried no more personal imputation than t...

As Socrates so philosophically put it, since we don't know what death is, it is illogical to fear it...

It is never right to injure anyone. It can never be right to make someone worse than he is.

The difference between Socrates and Jesus is that no one had ever been put to death in Socrates' nam...

The young specialist in English Lit, having quoted me, went on to lecture me severely on the fact th...

I hate those Socratic dialogues where everything gets drawn out at the pace of an excessively logica...

It is indisputable that the being whose capacities of enjoyment are low, has the greatest chance of ...

Evolution is the law of policies: Darwin said it, Socrates endorsed it, Cuvier proved it and establi...

Socrates should have written comics.

Men are not born equal in themselves, so I think it beneath a man to postulate that they are. If I t...

What is democracy? It is what it says, the rule of the people. It is as good as the people are, or a...