653 Quotes by Socrates

How many are the things I can do without!

There is no greater magnificence than to defeat oneself. That is the magnificence...

If all the misfortunes of mankind were cast into a public stack in order to be equally distributed among the whole species, those who now think themselves the most unhappy would prefer the share they are already possessed of before that which would fall to them by such a division.

The only thing I know is that I know nothing

Awareness of ignorance is the beginning of wisdom.

I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.

Creation is man's immortality and brings him nearest to the gods.

The nearest way to glory a shortcut, as it were is to strive to be what you wish to be thought to be.

There are beds and tables in the world - plenty of them, are there not? But there are only two ideas or forms of them - one the idea of a bed, the other of a table.