Where there is reverence there is fear, but there is not reverence everywhere that there is fear, because fear presumably has a wider extension than reverence.
Socrates
True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.
Socrates
To know, is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge.
Socrates
The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.
Socrates
The unexamined life is not worth living.
Socrates
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
Socrates
All men’s souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine.
Socrates
As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will, he will be sure to repent.
Socrates
Be slow to fall into friendship but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.
Socrates
Beauty is the bait which with delight allures man to enlarge his kind.
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
Employ your time in improving yourself by other men’s writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.
Socrates
He is a man of courage who does not run away, but remains at his post and fights against the enemy.
Socrates
He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.
Socrates
I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean.
Socrates
I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.
Socrates
I only wish that ordinary people had an unlimited capacity for doing harm then they might have an unlimited power for doing good.
Socrates
My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you’ll be happy if not, you’ll become a philosopher.
Socrates
Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.
Socrates
Ordinary people seem not to realize that those who really apply themselves in the right way to philosophy are directly and of their own accord preparing themselves for dying and death.
Socrates