653 Quotes by Socrates

Man’s life is like a drop of dew on a leaf.

The children now love luxury. They have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise.

To use words and phrases in an easygoing manner without scrutinizing them too curiously is not in general a mark of ill-breeding. On the contrary, there is something low-bred in being too precise. But sometimes there is no help for it.

If what you want to tell me is neither True nor Good nor even Useful, why tell it to me at all.

Sometimes you put walls up not to keep people out, but to see who cares enough to break them down.

I know you won’t believe me, but the highest form of Human Excellence is to question oneself and others.

What a lot of things I don’t need.

A disorderly mob is no more an army than a heap of building materials is a house.

It is not the purpose of a juryman’s office to give justice as a favor to whoever seems good to him, but to judge according to law, and this he has sworn to do.