Top 440 Quotes & Sayings by Socrates - Page 8

Let he who would move the world, first complete an environmental impact assessment and a 90-day public comment period.

I know one thing, that I know nothing.

True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing. And in knowing that you know nothing, that makes you the smartest of all.

One cannot come closer to the gods than by bringing health to his Fellow Man.

Men of Athens, I honor and love you; but I shall obey God rather than you, and while I have life and strength I shall never cease from the practice and teaching of philosophy.

All I know is that I do not know anything

The alphabet will create forgetfulness in the learners' souls. They will trust the written characters and not remember themselves.

The end of life is to be like unto God; and the soul following God, will be like unto Him; He being the beginning, middle, and end of all things.

It seems that God took away the minds of poets that they might better express His.

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

If I can assign names as well as pictures to objects, the right assignment of them we may call truth, and the wrong assignment of them falsehood.

By all implies marry if you get a great wife/husband, you are going to be pleased. If you get a bad a single, you are going to become a philosopher.

Not I, but the city teaches.

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.

Has a philosopher like you failed to discover that our country is more to be valued and higher and holier far than mother or father or any ancestor, and more to be regarded in the eyes of the gods and of men of understanding?

It is not the purpose of a juryman's office to give justice as a favor to whoever seems good to him, but to judge according to law, and this he has sworn to do.

It has been shown that to injure anyone is never just anywhere.

One thing I know, that I know nothing. This is the source of my wisdom.

For who is there but you? - who not only claim to be a good man and a gentleman, for many are this, and yet have not the power of making others good. Whereas you are not only good yourself, but also the cause of goodness in others.

Living or dead, to a good man there can come no evil.