Quotes By Socrates

The highest realms of thought are impossible to reach without first attaining an understanding of compassion.

Fear of women love more than hate the man.

Knowing thyself is the height of wisdom.

All that I know is nothing - I'm not even sure of that.

To harm another is to harm oneself.

I have not sought during my life to amass wealth and to adorn my body, but I have sought to adorn my soul with the jewels of wisdom, patience, and above all with a love of liberty.

A multitude of books distracts the mind.

A free soul ought not to pursue any study slavishly, for nothing that is learned under compulsion stays with the mind.

Envy is the ulcer of the soul.

Death offers mankind a full view of truth.

Pride divides the men, humility joins them.

False language, evil in itself, infects the soul with evil.

Those who want the fewest things are nearest to the gods.

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

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

Wisdom is knowing what you don't know.

Virtue is the beauty of the soul.

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

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

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.