Socrates Quotes
470 BC – 399 BC
Classical Athenian philosopher and a founder of Western philosophy. He wrote nothing himself; his ideas survive mainly through the dialogues of his student Plato.
20 quotesAbout Socrates on Wikipedia
“Wonder is the feeling of a philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.”
“Anyone who holds a true opinion without understanding is like a blind man on the right road.”
“False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.”
“Crito, we owe a cock to Asclepius. Pay it and do not neglect it.”
“Either knowledge is not to be attained at all, or if at all, after death.”
“Whence come wars, and fighting, and factions? Whence but from the body and the lusts of the body?”
“Indeed, life would be unliveable, even if I did not notice the change.”
“The being of all virtues, and chiefly of temperance, depends on the practice of them.”
“Bad men live that they may eat and drink, whereas good men eat and drink that they may live.”
“There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance.”
“There is no greater evil one can suffer than to hate reasonable discourse.”
