653 Quotes by Socrates

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

Justice. If only we knew what it was.

A man who really fights for justice must lead a private, not a public, life if he is to survive for even a short time.

The true champion of justice, if he intends to survive even for a short time, must necessarily confine himself to private life and leave politics alone.

Beloved Pan and all ye other gods who haunt this place, give me beauty in the inward soul, and may the outward and the inner man be at one.

In all of us, even in good men, there is a lawless wild-beast nature, which peers out in sleep.

You are wrong sir, if you think that a man who is any good at all should take into account the risk of life or death; he should look to this only in his actions, whether what he does is right or wrong.

Strong minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, weak minds discuss people.

The ancient Oracle said that I was the wisest of all the Greeks. It is because I alone, of all the Greeks, know that I know nothing.