Socrates Quotes
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Four things belong to a judge: to hear courteously, to answer wisely, to consider soberly, and to decide impartially.
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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.
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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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Think not those faithful who praise all thy words and actions, but those who kindly reprove thy faults.
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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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Not I, but the city teaches.
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Obscurity is dispelled by augmenting the light of discernment, not by attacking the darkness.
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I know nothing but the certainty of my own ignorance.
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Better to do a little well, then a great deal badly.
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The soul is cured of its maladies by certain incantations; these incantations are beautiful reasons, from which temperance is generated in souls.
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Though flattery blossoms like friendship, yet there is a vast difference in the fruit.
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God desired to be the real maker of a real bed, not a particular maker of a particular bed, and therefore He created a bed which is essentially and by nature one only.
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There is a doctrine whispered in secret that a man is a prisoner who has no right to open the door and run away; this is a great mystery which I do not quite understand.
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The examined life is the only life worth living.
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The envious person grows lean with the fatness of their neighbor.
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The noblest worship is to make yourself as good and as just as you can.
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Those then who know not wisdom and virtue, and are always busy with gluttony and sensuality, go down and up again as far as the mean; and in this region they move at random throughout life, but they never pass into the true upper world; thither they neither look, nor do they ever find their way, neither are they truly filled with true being, nor do they ever taste of pure and abiding pleasure.
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Philebus was saying that enjoyment and pleasure and delight, and the class of feelings akin to them, are a good to every living being, whereas I contend, that not these, but wisdom and intelligence and memory, and their kindred, right opinion and true reasoning, are better and more desirable than pleasure.
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Talk in order that I may see you.
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She soars on her own wings.
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It is not the purpose of a juryman's office to give justice as a favor to whoever seems good to him, but to judge according to law, and this he has sworn to do.
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Nobody knows anything, but I, knowing nothing, am the smartest man in the world.
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Whoever would have his body supple, easy and healthful should learn to dance.