653 Quotes by Socrates

The nearest way to glory is to strive to be what you wish to be thought to be

The beginning of wisdom is a definition of terms.

There are two kinds of disease of the soul, vice and ignorance.

I have lived long enough to learn how much there is I can really do without.... He is nearest to God who needs the fewest things.

Nobody knows anything, but I, knowing nothing, am the smartest man in the world.

By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you will become a philosopher. Socrates (470-399 B.C.)

But already it is time to depart, for me to die, for you to go on living; which of us takes the better course, is concealed from anyone except God.

Serenity, regularity, absence of vanity,Sincerity, simplicity, veracity, equanimity, Fixity, non-irritability, adaptability, Humility, tenacity, integrity, nobility, magnanimity, charity, generosity, purity. Practise daily these eighteen "ities" You will soon attain immortality.

Whenever any one informs us that he has found a man who knows all the arts, and all things else that anybody knows, and every single thing with a higher degree of accuracy than any other man - whoever tells us this, I think that we can only imagine him to be a simple creature who is likely to have been deceived by some wizard or actor whom he met, and whom he thought all-knowing, because he himself was unable to analyse the nature of knowledge and ignorance and imitation.