Quotes from Socrates

When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser.

Awareness of ignorance is the beginning of wisdom.

The hour of departure has arrived and we go our ways; I to die, and you to live. Which is better? Only God knows.

Knowing thyself is the height of wisdom.

Are you not ashamed of heaping up the greatest amount of money and honor and reputation, and caring so little about wisdom and truth and the greatest improvement of the soul?

When you want wisdom and insight as badly as you want to breathe, it is then you shall have it.

People learn more on their own rather than being force fed.

Why should we pay so much attention to what the majority thinks?

Wisdom is knowing how little we know.

True wisdom lies in one's confession about the limits of one's knowledge.

To know thyself is the beginning of wisdom.

The true Wisdom is in recognizing our own ignorance.

Wisdom is knowing what you don't know.

Think not those faithful who praise all thy words and actions, but those who kindly reprove thy faults.

Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.

Wisdom adorneth riches and casteth a shadow over poverty.

By far the greatest and most admirable form of wisdom is that needed to plan and beautify cities and human communities.

The beginning of wisdom is a definition of terms.

Wisdom is knowing when you don't know

The tongue of a fool is the key of his counsel, which, in a wise man, wisdom hath in keeping.

The Delphic Oracle said I was the wisest of all the Greeks. It is because that I alone, of all the Greeks, know that I know nothing.

To live well and honorably and justly are the same thing.

I only know that I know nothing

Not by wisdom do they [poets] make what they compose, but by a gift of nature and an inspiration similar to that of the diviners and the oracles.