Socrates Quotes

False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.

He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.

Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.

To know, is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge.

Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.

Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.

One who is injured ought not to return the injury, for on no account can it be right to do an injustice; and it is not right to return an injury, or to do evil to any man, however much we have suffered from him.

Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.

By all means, marry. If you get a good wife, you'll become happy; if you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.

Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for.

Woman once made equal to man becomes his superior.

To find yourself, think for yourself.

True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.

True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.

Where there is reverence there is fear, but there is not reverence everywhere that there is fear, because fear presumably has a wider extension than reverence.

Wisdom begins in wonder.

Worthless people live only to eat and drink; people of worth eat and drink only to live.

How much there is in the world I do not want.

Let him that would move the world, first move himself.

There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance.

The right way to begin is to pay attention to the young, and make them just as good as possible.

Philosophy begins with wonder.

An education obtained with money is worse than no education at all.

The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.