653 Quotes by Socrates

Wen das Wort nicht schlägt, den schlägt auch der Stock nicht.

...[T]he really important thing is not to live, but to live well... [a]nd to live well means the same thing as to live honourably or rightly...

...[S]ome of the opinions which people entertain should be respected, and others should not.

He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.

Are you not ashamed of caring so much for the making of money and for fame and prestige, when you neither think nor care about wisdom and truth and the improvement of your soul?

I am convinced that I never wrong anyone intentionally...

Surely this is the objectionable kind of ignorance, to think one knowswhat one does not know? But in this, gentlemen, here also perhaps Iam different from the general run of mankind, and if I should claimto be wiser than someone in something it would be in this, that as Ido not know well enough about what happens in the house of Hades,so I do not think I know.

Surely this is the objectionable kind of ignorance, to think one knows what one does not know? But in this, gentlemen, here also perhaps I am different from the general run of mankind, and if I should claim to be wiser than someone in something it would be in this, that as I do not know well enough about what happens in the house of Hades, so I do not think I know.

Know thyself.