More quotes by Socrates

"Are you not ashamed of caring so much for the making of money and for fame and prestige, when you neither think nor care about wisdom and truth and the improvement of your soul?"
"Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle."
"I only know that I know nothing"
"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."
"The greatest blessing granted to mankind come by way of madness, which is a divine gift."