Socrates Quotes
- True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.
- Fame is the perfume of heroic deeds.
- 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…
- Be as you wish to seem.
- Beware the barrenness of a busy life.
- How many things are there which I do not want.
- The individual leads in order that those who are led can develop their potential as human beings and thereby prosper.
- The first key to greatness is to be in reality what we appear to be.
- Nothing is to be preferred before justice.
- 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…
- No citizen has a right to be an amateur in the matter of physical training... what a disgrace it is for a man to grow…
- Prefer knowledge to wealth, for the one is transitory, the other perpetual.
- From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate.
- The fewer our wants the more we resemble the Gods.
- Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others.
- Man must rise above the Earth - to the top of the atmosphere and beyond - for only thus will he fully understand the world…
- I am very conscious that I am not wise at all.
- In my investigation in the service of the god I found that those who had the highest reputation were nearly the most deficient, while those…
- Either I do not corrupt the young or, if I do, it is unwillingly.
- 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…