Socrates Quotes
20 quotes from Socrates — Greek philosopher considered the father of Western philosophy..
“I know that I know nothing.”
“All thinking begins with wondering.”
“Whatever authority I may have rests solely on knowing how little I know.”
“Let the questions be the curriculum.”
“To be is to do.”
“Know thyself.”
“I don't care what people say about me. I do care about my mistakes.”
“The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new.”
“The unexamined life is not worth living.”
“Falling down is not a failure. Failure comes when you stay where you have fallen.”
“Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.”
“True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.”
“I am wiser than this man; it is likely that neither of us knows anything worthwhile, but he thinks he knows something when he does not, whereas when I do not know, neither do I think I know; so I am likely to be wiser than he to this small extent, that I do not think I know what I do not know.”
“It's no longer fashionable to associate with Socrates and his hairsplitting twaddle, neglecting the craft of the tragedians.”
“Of all those we have known, he was the best, and also the wisest and the most upright.”
“The unexamined life is not worth living for a human being.”
“I am the kind of man who listens to nothing but the argument that on reflection seems best to me.”
“Neither to do wrong or to return a wrong is ever right, not even to injure in return for an injury received.”
“If you take my advice, you will give but little thought to Socrates but much more to the truth. If you think that what I say is true, agree with me; if not, oppose it with every argument.”
“I tell you that virtue is not given by money, but that from virtue come money and every other good of man, public as well as private.”
