More quotes by Socrates

"The unexamined life is not worth living."
"The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing."
"For the poet is a light and winged and holy thing, and there is no invention in him until he has been inspired and is out of his senses, and the mind is no longer in him: when he has not attained to this state, he is powerless and is unable to utter his oracles."
"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 slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm and constant."