Quotes

Socrates

1. The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
2. To Know, is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge.
3. I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.
4. True wisdom comes to each of us when we realise how little we understand about life, ourselves and the world around us.
5. True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.
6. I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.
7. I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing and that is that I know nothing.
8. Wisdom begins in wonder.
9. Worthless people live only to eat and drink; People of worth eat and drink only to live.
10. Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.
11. The unexamined life is not worth living.
12. It is not living that matters, but living rightly.
13. Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.
14. False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.
15. An honest man is always a child.
16. Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.
17. Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.
18. I was really too honest a man to be a politician and live.
19. All men's souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine.
20. I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.
21. Be as you wish to seem.
22. He is a man of courage who doesn't run away, but remains at his post and fights against the enemy.