People Quotes by Socrates

Life is like a game of football, played with Hitler's severed head.

— Socrates

One thing I know, that I know nothing. This is the source of my wisdom.

— Socrates

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

— Socrates

I don't care what people say about me. I do care about my mistakes.

— Socrates

People learn more on their own rather than being force fed.

— Socrates

Be the kind of person that you want people to think you are.

— Socrates

“If all our misfortunes were laid in one common heap, whence every one must take an equal portion, most people would be…

— Socrates

What is happening to our young people? They disrespect their elders, they disobey their parents. They ignore the law. They riot in…

— Socrates

Whenever, therefore, people are deceived and form opinions wide of the truth, it is clear that the error has slid into their…

— Socrates

Nobody knows what death is, nor whether to man it is perchance the greatest of blessings, yet people fear it as if…

— Socrates

I only wish that ordinary people had an unlimited capacity for doing harm; then they might have an unlimited power for doing…

— Socrates

Young people nowadays love luxury; they have bad manners and contempt for authority. They show disrespect for old people... contradict their parents,…

— Socrates

Ordinary people seem not to realize that those who really apply themselves in the right way to philosophy are directly and of…

— Socrates

To fear death is nothing other than to think oneself wise when one is not. For it is to think one knows…

— Socrates

The young people of today think of nothing but themselves. They have no reverence for parents or old age. They are impatient…

— Socrates

Obligation sends the children to bed on time, but love tucks the covers in around their necks and passes out kisses and…

— Socrates

Most people, including ourselves, live in a world of relative ignorance. We are even comfortable with that ignorance, because it is all…

— Socrates