Socrates Quotes
Top 100 wise famous quotes and sayings by Socrates
Socrates Famous Quotes & Sayings
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I prefer to be refuted than to refute, for it is a greater good for oneself to be freed from the greatest evil than to free another.
The alphabet will create forgetfulness in the learners' souls. They will trust the written characters and not remember themselves.
Often when looking at a mass of things for sale, he would say to himself, 'How many things I have no need of!'
Some have courage in pleasures, and some in pains: some in desires, and some in fears, and some are cowards under the same conditions.
The hour of departure has arrived, and we go our separate ways, I to die, and you to live. Which of these two is better only God knows.
Our purpose in founding the city was not to make any one class in it surpassingly happy, but to make the city as a whole as happyas possible.
Improve yourself by other men's writings thus attaining effortlessly what they acquired through great difficulty.
One ought not to return injustice, nor do evil to anybody in the world, no matter what one may have suffered from them.
The individual leads in order that those who are led can develop their potential as human beings and thereby prosper.
To give either to any public matter of interest or to any concern of my own, but I am in utter poverty by reason of my devotion to the god .
Such as thy words are, such will thy affections be esteemed; and such will thy deeds be as thy affections and such thy life as thy deeds.
A free soul ought not to pursue any study slavishly, for nothing that is learned under compulsion stays with the mind.
Smart people learn from everything and everyone,
Average people from their experiences,
Stupid people already have all the answers.
Average people from their experiences,
Stupid people already have all the answers.
Intelligent individuals learn from every thing and every one; average people, from their experiences. The stupid already have all the answers.
In every sort of danger there are various ways of winning through, if one is ready to do and say anything whatever.
Now the hour to part has come. I go to die, you go to live. Which of us goes to the better lot is known to no one, except the god.
Wealth does not bring goodness, but goodness brings wealth and every other blessing, both to the individual and to the state
Marry a good woman, and be happy the rest of your life. Or, marry a bad, and become a good philosopher
True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.
Man must rise above the Earth - to the top of the atmosphere and beyond - for only thus will he fully understand the world in which he lives.