Famous Quotes
145 Quotations with Socrates.
- 121. Socrates: We are in fact convinced that if we are ever to have pure knowledge of anything, ...
- 122. Socrates: Well I am certainly wiser than this man. It is only too likely that neither of u ...
- 123. Socrates: What a lot of things there are a man can do without.
- 124. Socrates: What most counts is not to live, but to live aright.
- 125. Socrates: When desire, having rejected reason and overpowered judgment which leads to righ ...
- 126. Socrates: Where there is reverence there is fear, but there is not reverence everywhere th ...
- 127. Socrates: Whom do I call educated? First, those who manage well the circumstances they enc ...
- 128. Socrates: Worthless people love only to eat and drink; people of worth eat and drink only ...
- 129. Socrates: The first key to greatness is to be in reality what we appear to be.
- 130. Socrates: Know yourself. The unexamined life is not worth living.
- 131. Norman Cousins: A library, to modify the famous metaphor of Socrates, should be the delivery roo ...
- 132. Ralph Waldo Emerson: A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesm ...
- 133. Socrates: The soul is pure when it leaves the body and drags nothing bodily with it, by vi ...
- 134. Socrates: My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not ...
- 135. Socrates: I must first know myself, as the Delphian inscription says; to be curious about ...
- 136. Socrates: the right way is to give one's attention first to the highest good of the young, ...
- 137. Socrates: To do is to be.
- 138. Socrates: You are not only good yourself, but the cause of goodness in others.
- 139. Socrates: No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.
- 140. Socrates: Better to do a little well, then a great deal badly.