Quotes by : Socrates

If I save my insight, I don’t attend to weakness of eyesight.

Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.

It seems to me that whatever else is beautiful apart from absolute Beauty is beautiful because it partakes....

...[R]eal wisdom is the property of God, and... human wisdom has little or no value.

Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.

God takes away the minds of poets, and uses them as his ministers, as he also uses diviners and holy....

Be slow to fall into friendship but when thou art in continue firm and constant.

My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a philosopher.....

By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you’ll become happy; if you get a bad one, you’ll become....

Nobody is qualified to become a statesman who is entirely ignorant of the problems of wheat.