653 Quotes by Socrates

We too must endure and persevere in the inquiry, and then courage will not laugh at our faintheartedness in searching for courage; which after all may, very likely, be endurance.

The soul is pure when it leaves the body and drags nothing bodily with it, by virtue of having no willing association with the body in life but avoiding it.......Practicing philosophy in the right way is a training to die easily.

Musical training is a more potent instrument than any other, because rhythm and harmony find their way into the inward places of the soul, on which they mightily fasten, imparting grace, and making the soul of him who is rightly educated graceful, or of him who is ill-educated ungraceful.

If what you want to tell me is neither True nor Good nor even Useful, why tell it to me at all

Neither I nor any other man should, on trial or in way, contrive to avoid death at any cost.

Remember that there is nothing stable in human affairs; therefore avoid undue elation in prosperity, or undue depression in adversity.

If you will be guided by me, you will make little account of Socrates, and much more of truth.

The more I learn, the less I realize I know.

The man who is truly wise knows that he knows very little.