653 Quotes by Socrates

I only wish that ordinary people had an unlimited capacity for doing harm; then they might have an unlimited power for doing good.

Why should we pay so much attention to what the majority thinks?

And I say let a man be of good cheer about his soul. When the soul has been arrayed in her own proper jewels - temperance and justice, and courage, and nobility and truth - she is ready to go on her journey when the hour comes.

When desire, having rejected reason and overpowered judgment which leads to right, is set in the direction of the pleasure which beauty can inspire, and when again under the influence of its kindred desires it is moved with violent motion towards the beauty of corporeal forms, it acquires a surname from this very violent motion, and is called love.

Fellow citizens, why do you burn and scrape every stone to gather wealth and take so little care of your children to whom you must one day relinquish all?

This is...self-knowled ge-for a man to know what he knows, and what he does not know.

The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be.

Death offers mankind a full view of truth.

The beginning is the most important part, especially when dealing with anything young and tender.