Nobody knows anything, but I, knowing nothing, am the smartest man in the world. Socrates More Quotes by Socrates More Quotes From Socrates Some have courage in pleasures, and some in pains: some in desires, and some in fears, and some are cowards under the same conditions. Socrates cowardpaindesire The understanding of mathematics is necessary for a sound grasp of ethics. Socrates ethicsunderstandingsound The universe really is motion & nothing else. Socrates universe Admitting one's ignorance is the first step in acquiring knowledge. Socrates admittingignorancefirsts The soul, like the body, accepts by practice whatever habit one wishes it to contact. Socrates soulpracticewish The perfect human being is all human beings put together, it is a collective, it is all of us together that make perfection. Socrates collectivesperfecttogether The bad one is that way because of the ignorance, therefore he can be healed with wisdom. Socrates healedignoranceway Whenever any one informs us that he has found a man who knows all the arts, and all things else that anybody knows, and every single thing with a higher degree of accuracy than any other man - whoever tells us this, I think that we can only imagine him to be a simple creature who is likely to have been deceived by some wizard or actor whom he met, and whom he thought all-knowing, because he himself was unable to analyse the nature of knowledge and ignorance and imitation. Socrates ignorancesimpleart How many things I can do without! Socrates possessionmoneylife I am very conscious that I am not wise at all. Socrates apologywisesorry The individual leads in order that those who are led can develop their potential as human beings and thereby prosper. Socrates individualhumansorder Do you suppose that I should have lived as long as I have if I had moved in the sphere of public life, and conducting myself in that sphere like an honorable man, had always upheld the cause of right, and conscientiously set this end above all other things? Not by a very long way, gentlemen; neither would any other man. Socrates honorable-manshould-havemen It is never right to do wrong or to requite wrong with wrong, or when we suffer evil to defend ourselves by doing evil in return. Socrates honestyintegritycharacter I am wiser than this man, for neither of us appears to know anything great and good; but he fancies he knows something, although he knows nothing; whereas I, as I do not know anything, so I do not fancy I do. In this trifling particular, then, I appear to be wiser than he, because I do not fancy I know what I do not know. Socrates knowing-nothingfancymen God does not deal directly with man: it is by means of spirits that all the intercourse and communication of gods with men, both in waking life and in sleep, is carried on. Socrates communicationsleepmean No man has a right to be an amateur in the matter of physical training Socrates trainingmattermen To fear death, my friends, is only to think ourselves wise, without being wise: for it is to think that we know what we do not know. For anything that men can tell, death may be the greatest good that can happen to them: but they fear it as if they knew quite well that it was the greatest of evils. And what is this but that shameful ignorance of thinking that we know what we do not know? Socrates wisefeardeath Be of good cheer about death and know this as a truth, that no evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death Socrates cheerlifedeath Why do you wonder that globetrotting does not help you, seeing that you always take yourself with you? The reason that set you wandering is ever at your heels. Socrates doehelpingtravel Flattery is like a painted armor; only for show. Socrates flatteryarmorshows
