Quotes By Socrates

There is but one evil, ignorance.

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

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.

To know thyself is the beginning of wisdom.

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

Be true to thine own self.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

The misuse of language induces evil in the soul.

All thinking begins with wondering.

To need nothing is divine, and the less a man needs the nearer does he approach to divinity.

The partisan when he is engaged in a dispute, cares nothing about the rights of the question, but is anxious only to convince his hearers of his own assertions.

Do not be angry with me if I tell you the truth.

When you want wisdom and insight as badly as you want to breathe, it is then you shall have it.

Be as you wish to seem.

The noblest worship is to make yourself as good and as just as you can.