Socrates & Plato Quotes on Knowledge, Truth, and the Examined Life

The unexamined life is not worth living.

I know that I know nothing.

He who is not a good servant will not be a good master.

Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.

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

Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.

At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.

You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation.

Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.

A good decision is based on knowledge and not on numbers.

Courage is knowing what not to fear.

Wise men speak because they have something to say; fools because they have to say something.

The measure of a man is what he does with power.

One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.

False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.

Courage is knowing what not to fear.

Wise men speak because they have something to say; fools because they have to say something.

The measure of a man is what he does with power.

One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.

False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.

Courage is knowing what not to fear.

Wise men speak because they have something to say; fools because they have to say something.

The measure of a man is what he does with power.

One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.

False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.