"Wisdom begins in wonder."
-Socrates

"I was afraid that by observing objects
with my eyes and trying to comprehend
them with each of my other senses
I might blind my soul altogether."
-Socrates

"I decided that it was not wisdom
that enabled poets to write their poetry,
but a kind of instinct or inspiration,
such as you find in seers and prophets
who deliver all their sublime messages
without knowing in the least what they mean."
-Socrates

"Let him that would
move the world,
first move himself."
-Socrates

"If all our misfortunes were laid
in one common heap whence everyone
must take an equal portion,
most people would be contented
to take their own and depart."
-Socrates

"If a rich man is proud of his wealth,
he should not be praised until
it is known how he employs it."
-Socrates

"When desire, having rejected reason and
overpowered judgment which leads to right,
is set in the direction of the pleasure which
beauty can inspire, and when again under the
influence of its kindred desires it is moved
with violent motion towards the beauty of
corporeal forms, it acquires a surname from
this very violent motion, and is called love."
-Socrates

"Not life, but good life,
is to be chiefly valued."
-Socrates

"The fewer our wants
the more we resemble the Gods."
-Socrates

"The end of life is to be like God,
and the soul following God will be like Him."
-Socrates

"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

"The only good is knowledge
and the only evil is ignorance."
-Socrates

"Employ your time in improving yourself by
other men's writings so that you shall come
easily by what others have labored hard for."
-Socrates

"See one promontory, one mountain,
one sea, one river and see all."
-Socrates