653 Quotes by Socrates

In every one of us there are two ruling and directing principles, whose guidance we follow wherever they may lead; the one being an innate desire of pleasure; the other, an acquired judgment which aspires after excellence.

This sense of wonder is the mark of the philosopher. Philosophy indeed has no other origin.

It seems that God took away the minds of poets that they might better express His.

It is better to make a mistake with full force of your being than to carefully avoid mistakes with a trembling spirit.

Knowledge is our ultimate good.

The greatest flood has the soonest ebb; the sorest tempest the most sudden calm; the hottest love the coldest end; and from the deepest desire oftentimes ensues the deadliest hate.

We are what we think we are

There is but one evil, ignorance.

Every pleasure or pain has a sort of rivet with which it fastens the soul to the body and pins it down and makes it corporeal, accepting as true whatever the body certifies.