653 Quotes by Socrates

To move the world we must move ourselves.

The soul, like the body, accepts by practice whatever habit one wishes it to contact.

Is there anyone to whom you entrust a greater number of serious matters than your wife? And is there anyone with whom you have fewer conversations?

The uninitiated are those who believe in nothing except what they can grasp in their hands, and who deny the existence of all that is invisible.

You are wrong, sir, if you think that a man who is any good at all should take into account the risk of life or death; he should look to this only in his actions, whether what he does is right or wrong, whether he is acting like a good or a bad man.

If measure and symmetry are absent from any composition in any degree, ruin awaits both the ingredients and the composition... Measure and symmetry are beauty and virtue the world over.

The hour of departure has arrived and we go our ways; I to die, and you to live. Which is better? Only God knows.

What most counts is not merely to live, but to live right.

Wisdom is knowing what you don't know.