Socrates Quotes

Ordinary people seem not to realize that those who really apply themselves in the right way to philosophy are directly and of their own accord preparing themselves for dying and death.

By all means, marry. If you get a good wife, you'll become happy if you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.

One should never do wrong in return, nor mistreat any man, no matter how one has been mistreated by him.

Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.

The poets are only the interpreters of the gods.

The unexamined life is not worth living.

.. is there not one true coin for which all things ought to exchange?- and that is wisdom; and only in exchange for this, and in company with this, is anything truly bought or sold, whether courage, t...

To fear death, gentlemen, is no other than to think oneself wise when one is not, to think one knows what one does not know. No one knows whether death may not be the greatest of all blessings for a m...

Know thyself.

I know one thing, that I know nothing.

All I know is that I do not know anything

Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for.

God takes away the minds of poets, and uses them as his ministers, as he also uses diviners and holy prophets, in order that we who hear them may know them to be speaking not of themselves who utter t...

As for me all I know is that I know nothing.

Nobody is qualified to become a statesman who is entirely ignorant of the problems of wheat.

Living well and beautifully and justly are all one thing.

What most counts is not to live but to live aright.

Be of good cheer about death, and know this of a truth, that no evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.

How many things there are which I do not want.

I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled [poets] to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages withou...