Socrates
Socrates
Socrates was a classical Greekphilosopher credited as one of the founders of Western philosophy. He is an enigmatic figure known chiefly through the accounts of classical writers, especially the writings of his students Plato and Xenophon and the plays of his contemporary Aristophanes. Plato's dialogues are among the most comprehensive accounts of Socrates to survive from antiquity, though it is unclear the degree to which Socrates himself is "hidden behind his 'best disciple', Plato"...
NationalityGreek
ProfessionPhilosopher
believe ignorance demonstration
To Believe without evidence and demonstration is an act of ignorance and folly
ignorance way healed
The bad one is that way because of the ignorance, therefore he can be healed with wisdom.
apology men thinking
You are wrong, sir, if you think that a man who is any good at all should take into account the risk of life or death; he should look to this only in his actions, whether what he does is right or wrong, whether he is acting like a good or a bad man.
character
What most counts is not merely to live, but to live right.
men evil good-man
Living or dead, to a good man there can come no evil.
change intelligent ignorant
Only the extremely ignorant or the extremely intelligent can resist change.
giving soul honor
Are you not ashamed of your eagerness to possess as much wealth, reputation, and honors as possible, while you do not care for nor give thought to wisdom or truth, or the best possible state of your soul?
wise men self
May I consider the wise man rich, and may I have such wealth as only the self-restrained man can bear or endure.
knowledge thinking swans
You think that upon the score of fore-knowledge and divining I am infinitely inferior to the swans. When they perceive approaching death they sing more merrily than before, because of the joy they have in going to the God they serve.
ignorance evil said
He said that there was one only good, namely, knowledge; and one only evil, namely, ignorance.
thinking wonder
All thinking begins with wondering
needs mass
Often when looking at a mass of things for sale, he would say to himself, 'How many things I have no need of!'
vanity rags
Through your rags I see your vanity.
inspiration understanding talent
I soon realized that poets do not compose their poems with knowledge, but by some inborn talent and by inspiration, like seers and prophets who also say many fine things without any understanding of what they say.