More quotes by Socrates

"Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for."
"My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a philosopher."
"The unexamined life is not worth living."
"God takes away the minds of poets, and uses them as his ministers, as he also uses diviners and holy prophets, in order that we who hear them may know them to be speaking not of themselves who utter these priceless words in a state of unconsciousness, but that God himself is the speaker, and that through them he is conversing with us."
"Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel."