653 Quotes by Socrates

Wisdom is knowing when you don't know

Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel

Wealth does not bring about excellence (aka areté), but excellence (aka areté) brings about wealth and all other public and private blessings for men.

No one can teach, if by teaching we mean the transmission of knowledge, in any mechanical fashion, from one person to another. The most that can be done is that one person who is more knowledgeable than another can, by asking a series of questions, stimulate the other to think, and so cause him to learn for himself.

Why should I resent it when an ass kicks me?

Just as you ought not to attempt to cure eyes without head or head without body, so you should not treat body without soul.

To give either to any public matter of interest or to any concern of my own, but I am in utter poverty by reason of my devotion to the god .

The soul is cured of its maladies by certain incantations; these incantations are beautiful reasons, from which temperance is generated in souls.

I am a Citizen of the World, and my Nationality is Goodwill.