653 Quotes by Socrates

Admitting one's ignorance is the first step in acquiring knowledge ...

Be of good hope in the face of death. Believe in this one truth for certain, that no evil can befall a good man either in life or death, and that his fate is not a matter of indifference to the gods.

The greatest of all mysteries is the man himself.

The difficulty, my friends, is not in avoiding death, but in avoiding unrighteousness; for that runs faster than death.

If you would seek health, look first to the spine.

Pride divides the men, humility joins them.

There is no illness of the body except for the mind

I am a citizen, not of Athens, or Greece, but of the world.

No man undertakes a trade he has not learned, even the meanest; yet everyone thinks himself sufficiently qualified for the hardest of all trades, that of government.