Socrates Quotes

Life without enquiry is not worth living.

Wisdom begins in wonder.

We gain our first measure of intelligence when we first admit our own ignorance.

Ojalá Critón, que la mayoría fuera capaz de llevar a cabo los mayores males, con tal de que fuera capaz de realizar los mayores bienes, que entonces todo iría bellamente. Mas, por el contrario, de ninguna de las dos cosas son capaces, que no pueden hacer ni lo sensato ni lo insensato, sino tan solo lo que les salga a la ventura

"Knowledge is the only virtue," because "Once a man knows good from evil, nothing on earth can compel him to act against that knowledge."

Make Athens Think Again.

Really, Ischomachus, I am disposed to ask: "Does teaching consist in putting questions?" Indeed, the secret of your system has just this instant dawned upon me. I seem to see the principle in which you put your questions. You lead me through the field of my own knowledge, and then by pointing out analogies to what I know, persuade me that I really know some things which hitherto, as I believed, I had no knowledge of.

Der Missbrauch der Sprache lässt Böses in die Seele

Anyone who holds a true opinion without understanding is like a blind man on the right road.

Let him who would move the world first move himself.

Ηe knew nothing except just the fact of his ignorance.

And when you see a man who is repining at the approach of death, is not his reluctance a sufficient proof that he is not a lover of wisdom, but a lover of the body, and probably at the same time a lover of either money or power, or both?

My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a philosopher.

It is better to suffer wrong than to do wrong

All I know is that I know nothing.