653 Quotes by Socrates

By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher and that is a good thing for any man.

All that we know is nothing can be known.

...one thing I am ready to fight for as long as I can, in word and act: that is, that we shall be better, braver and more active men if we believe it right to look for what we don't know than if we believe there is no point in looking because what we don't know we can never discover.

It is never right to do wrong or to requite wrong with wrong, or when we suffer evil to defend ourselves by doing evil in return.

I am not an Athenian, nor a Greek, but a citizen of the world.

I am very conscious that I am not wise at all.

Falling down is not a failure. Failure comes when you stay where you have fallen.

If at first you don't succeed, avoid skydiving.

Think not those faithful who praise all thy words and actions, but those who kindly reprove thy faults.