653 Quotes by Socrates

The warm love has the coldest end.

The Delphic oracle said I was the wisest of all the Greeks. It is because I alone, of all the Greeks, know that I know nothing.

I call myself a Peaceful Warrior... because the battles we fight are on the inside

If you can do only a little. Do what you can. What you cannot enforce, do not command.

To know thyself is the beginning of wisdom.

There is only one good -- knowledge; and only one evil -- ignorance.

Athletics have become professionalized.

Understanding a question is half an answer.

No citizen has any right to be an amateur in the matter of physical training; it is part of his profession as a citizen to keep himself in good condition... [It is] a disgrace for a man to grow old without seeing the beauty and the strength of which his body is capable.