Socrates Quotes
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The bad one is that way because of the ignorance, therefore he can be healed with wisdom.
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The best seasoning for food is hunger; for drink, thirst.
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You are wrong, sir, if you think that a man who is any good at all should take into account the risk of life or death; he should look to this only in his actions, whether what he does is right or wrong, whether he is acting like a good or a bad man.
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What is happening to our young people? They disrespect their elders, they disobey their parents. They ignore the law. They riot in the streets inflamed with wild notions. Their morals are decaying. What is to become of them?
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One ought not to return injustice, nor do evil to anybody in the world, no matter what one may have suffered from them.
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The soul then, as being immortal, and having been born again many times, and having seen all things that exist, whether in this world or in the world below, has knowledge of them all . . . all enquiry and all learning is but recollection.
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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.
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A disorderly mob is no more an army than a heap of building materials is a house.
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What most counts is not merely to live, but to live right.
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Anybody can be a hellene, by his heart, his mind, his spirit.
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I prefer to be refuted than to refute, for it is a greater good for oneself to be freed from the greatest evil than to free another.
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Why should I resent it when an ass kicks me?
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When our feet hurt, we hurt all over.
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Nobody knows anything, but I, knowing nothing, am the smartest man in the world.
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The noblest worship is to make yourself as good and as just as you can.
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When desire, having rejected reason and overpowered judgment which leads to right, is set in the direction of the pleasure which beauty can inspire, and when again under the influence of its kindred desires it is moved with violent motion towards the beauty of corporeal forms, it acquires a surname from this very violent motion, and is called love.
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When you want wisdom and insight as badly as you want to breathe, it is then you shall have it.
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The examined life is the only life worth living.
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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?
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Well I am certainly wiser than this man. It is only too likely that neither of us has any knowledge to boast of; but he thinks that he knows something which he does not know, whereas I am quite conscious of my ignorance. At any rate it seems that I am wiser than he is to this small extent, that I do not think that I know what I do not know.
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It is a base thing for a man to wax old in careless self-neglect before he has lifted up his eyes and seen what manner of man he was made to be, in the full perfection of bodily strength and beauty. But these glories are withheld from him who is guilty of self-neglect, for they are not wont to blaze forth unbidden.
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Improve yourself by other men's writings thus attaining effortlessly what they acquired through great difficulty.
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Wind buffs up empty bladders; opinion, fools.
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If I can assign names as well as pictures to objects, the right assignment of them we may call truth, and the wrong assignment of them falsehood.