653 Quotes by Socrates

The hardest task needs the lightest hand or else its completion will not lead to freedom but to a tyranny much worse than the one it replaces.

True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing. And in knowing that you know nothing, that makes you the smartest of all.

God desired to be the real maker of a real bed, not a particular maker of a particular bed, and therefore He created a bed which is essentially and by nature one only.

The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new.

May the outward and inward man be at one.

Either I do not corrupt the young or, if I do, it is unwillingly.

Four things belong to a judge: to hear courteously, to answer wisely, to consider soberly, and to decide impartially.

Those who want the fewest things are nearest to the gods.

The duller eye may often see a thing sooner than the keener.