653 Quotes by Socrates

Do not grieve over someone who changes all of the sudden. It might be that he has given up acting and returned to his true self.

A system of morality that is based on relative emotional values is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception that has nothing sound in it and nothing true.

The first key to greatness is to be in reality what we appear to be.

If I can assign names as well as pictures to objects, the right assignment of them we may call truth, and the wrong assignment of them falsehood.

To Believe without evidence and demonstration is an act of ignorance and folly

To know, is to know that you know nothing.

There are a great many of these accusers, and they have been accusing me now for a great many years, and what is more, they approached you at the most impressionable age, when some of you were children or adolescents; and literally won their case by default, because there was no one to defend me.

What a lot of things there are a man can do without.

The bad one is that way because of the ignorance, therefore he can be healed with wisdom.