Quote by Gary Preiss

“Socrates was famous in Athens for saying, “Know thyself.” It is said that one of his students said to him: “Socrates, you go around…

— Jon Kabat-Zinn

Know thyself,’ said Socrates. Know thyself,’ said Sappho, ‘and make sure that the Church never finds out.

— Jeanette Winterson

“Socrates himself said, "one thing only I know, and that is that I know nothing.”

— Jostein Gaarder

“My friend...care for your psyche...know thyself, for once we know ourselves, we may learn how to care for ourselves" -Socrates”

— Socrates

Socrates' way of life is the consequence of his recognition that we can know what it is that we do not know about the…

— Allan Bloom

“It takes a special kind of humility to grasp that you know less, even as you know and grasp more and more. It’s remembering…

— Ryan Holiday

If you will be guided by me, you will make little account of Socrates, and much more of truth.

— Socrates

A Socrates in every classroom.

— Alfred Whitney Griswold

“There you have Socrates’ wisdom; [b] he himself isn’t willing to teach, but he goes around learning from others and isn’t even grateful to…

— Plato

All I would ask you to be thinking of is the truth and not Socrates.

— Plato

I admire the courage and wisdom of Socrates in everything he did, said--and did not say.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

If you will take my advice you will think little of Socrates, and a great deal more of truth.

— Socrates