Quotes By Socrates

Give me beauty in the inward soul; and may the outward and inward may be one.

I shall never fear or avoid things of which I do not know.

No man undertakes a trade he has not learned, even the meanest; yet everyone thinks himself sufficiently qualified for the hardest of all trades, that of government.

The envious person grows lean with the fatness of their neighbor.

Man's life is like a drop of dew on a leaf.

The uninitiated are those who believe in nothing except what they can grasp in their hands, and who deny the existence of all that is invisible.

Be true to thine own self.

There is no illness of the body except for the mind.

To know thyself is the beginning of wisdom.

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.

The cure of many diseases remains unknown to the physicians of Hellos (Greece) because they do not study the whole person.

Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm & constant.

There is but one evil, ignorance.

Who knows if to live is to be dead, and to be dead, to live? And we really, it may be, are dead; in fact I once heard sages say that we are now dead, and the body is our tomb.

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

When you propose ridiculous things to believe, too many men will choose to believe nothing at all.

Virtue is the beauty of the soul.

Wisdom is knowing what you don't know.

Regard your good name as the richest jewel you can possibly be possessed of.

If one knows what is right, he will do it; nobody wants to be evil.