653 Quotes by Socrates

Flattery is like a painted armor; only for show.

Smart people learn from everything and everyone, Average people from their experiences, Stupid people already have all the answers.

The tongue of a fool is the key of his counsel, which, in a wise man, wisdom hath in keeping.

I shall never fear or avoid things of which I do not know...

Are you not ashamed of heaping up the greatest amount of money and honor and reputation, and caring so little about wisdom and truth and the greatest improvement of the soul?

The universe really is motion & nothing else.

Nature has given us two ears, two eyes, and but one tongue-to the end that we should hear and see more than we speak.

The Spirit is neither good nor bad, it runs where the wild heart leads" "Wisdom begins in wonder.

My belief is that to have no wants is divine.