Socrates Quotes
Socrates Quote of the day
I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.
Plato says that the unexamined life is not worth living. But what if the examined life turns out to be a clunker as well?
By far the greatest and most admirable form of wisdom is that needed to plan and beautify cities and human communities.
It is never right to injure anyone. It can never be right to make someone worse than he is.
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?
Wealth does not bring about excellence, but excellence makes wealth and everything else good for men, both individually and collectively.
If Socrates was alive today he would say : I know that I know everything. That's what contemporary philosophers do.
If you live as if you know nothing you offer yourself the opportunity to learn everything.
I hate those Socratic dialogues where everything gets drawn out at the pace of an excessively logical snail.
As Socrates so philosophically put it, since we don't know what death is, it is illogical to fear it.
Teeming brain can never never ceaseHush! Hush yellow bowl of SocratesCouplet by Mk Bhutta
The most intriguing people you will encounter in this life are the people who had insights about you, that you didn't know about yourself.
What is democracy? It is what it says, the rule of the people. It is as good as the people are, or as bad.
They say faith is taking the first step when you can’t see the whole staircase. Actually, wisdom is seeing the elevator behind it that would have taken you to the top floor.
Storms don't come to teach us painful lessons, rather they were meant to wash us clean.
My world view is somewhat unique. I have learned from many great philosophers including Plato, Socrates, Buddha, Jesus, Darwin, Tagore, Emerson, and many more.
... a man doesn't like to have his ego popped, especially when he prides himself on his sagacity, and then to be proved wrong by a man who claims he doesn't know anything.
You can find anyone that will tell you what you want to hear, but the only one worth valuing is the one that tells you what you need to learn.
