Socrates Quotes

169 Socrates quotes by 131 unique authors

When people asked Socrates, ‘What is wisdom?’ he always gave the same answer: ‘I don’t know’. In fact, Socrates never claimed to know much of… — Jim Rohn
Indeed, the very first acknowledgment (as far as I am aware) of the attraction of mutilated bodies occurs in a founding description of mental conflict.… — Susan Sontag
One's character is one's habitual way of behaving. We all have patterns of behavior or habits, and often we are quite unaware of them. When… — Thomas Lickona
Upon graduation, go out into the world and try to find yourself. What do I mean by that? Read Socrates, no. Get a job? Not… — Megyn Kelly
Unlike Churchill, I have no plans to shape history. . . . Socrates gave advice — George H. W. Bush
For comic writers charge Socrates with making the worse appear the better reason. — Quintilian
In humility imitate Jesus and Socrates. — Benjamin Franklin
Wonder [said Socrates] is very much the affection of a philosopher; for there is no other beginning of philosophy than this. — Plato
Socrates, when informed of some derogating speeches one had used concerning him behind his back, made only this facetious reply, "Let him beat me too… — Jean de La Fontaine
Socrates, indeed, when he was asked of what country he called himself, said, "Of the world"; for he considered himself an inhabitant and a citizen… — Marcus Tullius Cicero
I hear Socrates saying that the best seasoning for food is hunger; for drink, thirst. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
I would believe any religion that could prove it had existed since the beginning of the world. But when I see Socrates, Plato, Moses, and… — Napoleon Bonaparte
Socrates.- If all goes well, the time will come when one will take up the memorabilia of Socrates rather than the Bible as a guide… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Socrates ... is the first philosopher of life [Lebensphilosoph], ... Thinking serves life, while among all previous philosophers life had served thought and knowledge. ...… — Friedrich Nietzsche
There have been summits of civilization at which heretics like Socrates , who was killed because he was wiser than his neighbors, have not been… — George Bernard Shaw
Socrates used to call the opinions of the many by the name of Lamiae, bugbears to frighten children. — Marcus Aurelius
No age or condition is without its heroes . The least incapable general in a nation is its Cæsar, the least imbecile statesman its Solon… — George Bernard Shaw
Poetry, it is often said and loudly so, is life's true mirror. But a monkey looking into a work of literature looks in vain for… — Franz Grillparzer
I will admit, like Socrates and Aristotle and Plato and some other philosophers, that there are instances where the death penalty would seem appropriate. — Jack Kevorkian
Normally, if someone's legacy will outlast their life, it's apparent when they die. On the day when Alexander the Great, or Caesar Augustus, or Napoleon,… — John Ortberg
My father was a dreamy fellow - he read Plato and Socrates and watched Phillies games. — Patti Smith
Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Those moralists, on the other hand, who, following in the footsteps of Socrates, offer the individual a morality of self-control and temperance as a means… — Friedrich Nietzsche
There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to learn music and dancing, and thought… — Michel de Montaigne
Socrates called himself a midwife of ideas. A great book is often such a midwife, delivering to full existence what has been coiled like an… — Clifton Fadiman

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