653 Quotes by Socrates

The examined life is the only life worth living.

It is better to be at odds with the whole world than, being one, to be at odds with myself,

My divine sign indicates the future to me.

I know you won't believe me, but the highest form of Human Excellence is to question oneself and others.

Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.

Let he who would move the world, first complete an environmental impact assessment and a 90-day public comment period.

Virtue is the beauty of the soul.

He is a man of courage who does not run away, but remains at his post and fights against the enemy.

I am wiser than this man, for neither of us appears to know anything great and good; but he fancies he knows something, although he knows nothing; whereas I, as I do not know anything, so I do not fancy I do. In this trifling particular, then, I appear to be wiser than he, because I do not fancy I know what I do not know.