To know, is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge.
– Socrates
True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.
– Socrates
By all means, marry. If you get a good wife, you’ll become happy; if you get a bad one, you’ll become a philosopher.
– Socrates
The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.
– Socrates
The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be.
– Socrates
I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.
– Socrates
False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.
– Socrates
The unexamined life is not worth living.
– Socrates
Worthless people live only to eat and drink; people of worth eat and drink only to live.
– Socrates
Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.
– Socrates
He is a man of courage who does not run away, but remains at his post and fights against the enemy.
– Socrates
Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.
– Socrates
Let him that would move the world first move himself.
– Socrates
