True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.

— Socrates

True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.

— Socrates

Wealth does not bring about excellence, but excellence makes wealth and everything else good for men, both individually and collectively.

— Socrates

Wealth does not bring goodness, but goodness brings wealth and every other blessing, both to the individual and to the state

— Socrates

We cannot live better than in seeking to become better.

— Socrates

What most counts is not to live but to live aright.

— Socrates

...[W]hen death comes to a man, the mortal part of him dies, but the immortal part retires at the approach of death and escapes unharmed and indestructible... [I’t is as certain as anything can be... that soul is immortal and imperishable, and that our souls will really exist in the next world.

— Socrates

When you want wisdom and insight as badly as you want to breathe, it is then you shall have it.

— Socrates

Where there is reverence there is fear, but there is no reverence everywhere that there is fear, because fear presumably has a wider extension than reverence.

— Socrates

Wisdom begins in wonder.

— Socrates