Socrates Quotes
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Virtue is the beauty of the soul.
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Malice drinketh up the greater part of its own poison.
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No one can teach, if by teaching we mean the transmission of knowledge, in any mechanical fashion, from one person to another. The most that can be done is that one person who is more knowledgeable than another can, by asking a series of questions, stimulate the other to think, and so cause him to learn for himself.
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A free soul ought not to pursue any study slavishly, for nothing that is learned under compulsion stays with the mind.
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I do nothing but go about persuading you all, old and young alike, not to take thought for your persons or your properties, but and chiefly to care about the greatest improvement of the soul.
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As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will, he will be sure to repent.
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The true Wisdom is in recognizing our own ignorance.
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Living well and beautifully and justly are all one thing.
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A painter will paint a cobbler, carpenter, or any other artist, though he knows nothing of their arts; and, if he is a good artist, he may deceive children or simple persons, when he shows them his picture of a carpenter from a distance, and they will fancy that they are looking at a real carpenter.
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Happiness is unrepented pleasure.
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It is better to make a mistake with full force of your being than to carefully avoid mistakes with a trembling spirit.
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Nobody knows what death is, nor whether to man it is perchance the greatest of blessings, yet people fear it as if they surely knew it to be the worse of evils.
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Whenever a number of individuals have a common name, we assume them to have also a corresponding idea or form.
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Knowledge is our ultimate good.
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If the whole world depends on today's youth, I can't see the world lasting another 100 years.
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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.
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Wisdom belongs in wonder.
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Nobody is qualified to become a statesman who is entirely ignorant of the problem of wheat.
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There are beds and tables in the world - plenty of them, are there not? But there are only two ideas or forms of them - one the idea of a bed, the other of a table.
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Since all of us desire to be happy, and since we evidently become so on account of our use — that is our good use — of other things, and since knowledge is what provides this goodness of use and also good fortune, every man must, as seems plausible, prepare himself by every means for this: to be as wise as possible. Right?
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Wisdom is knowing what you don't know.
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An unexamined life is a life of no account.