Socrates

"The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing."

"Wisdom is knowing you know nothing"

"The unexamined life is not worth living."

"Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle."

"I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think"

"To find yourself, think for yourself."

"If the soul is immortal, it demands our care not only for that part of time which we call life, but for all time: and indeed it would seem now that it will be extremely dangerous to neglect it. If death were a release from everything, it would be a boon for the wicked. But since the soul is clearly immortal, it can have no escape or security from evil except by becoming as good and wise as it possibly can. For it takes nothing with it to the next world except its education and training: and these, we are told, are of supreme importance in helping or harming the newly dead at the very beginning of his journey there."

"An honest man is always a child."

"One who is injured ought not to return the injury, for on no account can it be right to do an injustice; and it is not right to return an injury, or to do evil to any man, however much we have suffered from him."

".. is there not one true coin for which all things ought to exchange?- and that is wisdom; and only in exchange for this, and in company with this, is anything truly bought or sold, whether courage, temperance or justice. And is not all true virtue the companion of wisdom, no matter what fears or pleasures or other similar goods or evils may or may not attend her? But the virtue which is made up of these goods, when they are severed from wisdom and exchanged with one another, is a shadow of virtue only, nor is there any freedom or health or truth in her; but in the true exchange there is a purging away of all these things, and temperance, and justice, and courage, and wisdom herself, are a purgation of them."

"He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have."

"To fear death, gentlemen, is no other than to think oneself wise when one is not, to think one knows what one does not know. No one knows whether death may not be the greatest of all blessings for a man, yet men fear it as if they knew that it is the greatest of evils."

"By far the greatest and most admirable form of wisdom is that needed to plan and beautify cities and human communities."

"Such as thy words are such will thine affections be esteemed and such as thine affections will be thy deeds and such as thy deeds will be thy life ..."

"To find the Father of all is hard. And when found, it is impossible to utter Him."

"Regard your good name as the richest jewel you can possibly be possessed of -- for credit is like fire; when once you have kindled it you may easily preserve it, but if you once extinguish it, you will find it an arduous task to rekindle it again. The way to a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear."

"Intelligent individuals learn from every thing and every one; average people, from their experiences. The stupid already have all the answers."

"All I know is that I do not know anything"

"One day, the old wise Socrates walks down the streets, when all of the sudden a man runs up to him "Socrates I have to tell you something about your friend who..."Hold up" Socrates interrupts him "About the story you're about to tell me, did you put it trough the three sieves"Three sieves" The man asks "What three sieves"Let's try it" Socrates says."The first sieve is the one of truth, did you examine what you were about to tell me if it is true" Socrates asks."Well no, I just overheard it" The man says."Ah, well then you have used the second sieve, the sieve of good" Socrates asks "Is it something good what you're about to tell me"Ehm no, on the contrary" the man answers."Hmmm" The wise man says "Let's use the third sieve then, is it necessary to tell me what you're so exited about"No not necessary" the man says."Well" Socrates says with a smile "If the story you're about to tell me isn't true, good or necessary, just forget it and don't bother me with it."

"We cannot live better than in seeking to become better."