653 Quotes by Socrates

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is a habit.

And the same things look bent and straight when seen in water and out of it, and also both concave and convex, due to the sight's being mislead by the colors, and every sort of confusion of this kind is plainly in our soul. And, then, it is because they take advantage of this affection in our nature that shadow painting, and puppeteering, and many other tricks of the kind fall nothing short of wizardry.

Living or dead, to a good man there can come no evil.

Beauty comes first. Victory is secondary. What matters is joy.

Only the knowledge that comes from inside is the real Knowledge

Only the extremely ignorant or the extremely intelligent can resist change.

The young people of today think of nothing but themselves. They have no reverence for parents or old age. They are impatient of all restraint. They talk as if they alone knew everything and what passes for wisdom with us is foolishness with them. As for girls, they are forward, immodest and unwomanly in speech, behaviour and dress.

Are you not ashamed of your eagerness to possess as much wealth, reputation, and honors as possible, while you do not care for nor give thought to wisdom or truth, or the best possible state of your soul?

May I consider the wise man rich, and may I have such wealth as only the self-restrained man can bear or endure.