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| I am a citizen, not of Athens or Greece, but of the world | | Citizenship | |
| I am not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world. | | Uncategorized | |
| I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing. | | Uncategorized | |
| I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think. | | Uncategorized | |
| 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. | | Poetry; Wisdom | |
| I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance. | | Ignorance | |
| I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing. | | Intelligence | |
| I only wish that ordinary people had an unlimited capacity for doing harm; then they might have an unlimited power for doing good. | | Uncategorized | |
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| I shall never act differently, even if I have to die for it many times | | Uncategorized | |
| I swear it upon Zeus an outstanding runner cannot be the equal of an average wrestler. | | Wrestling | |
| I thought to myself, 'I am wiser than this man: neither of us knows anything that is really worthwhile, but he thinks he has knowledge when he has not, while I, having no knowledge, do not think that I have. I seem, at any rate, to be a little wiser | | Uncategorized | |
| 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. | | Uncategorized | |
| I was really too honest a man to be a politician and live. | | Politicians | |
| If a rich man is proud of his wealth, he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it. | | Pride; Wealth | |
| If all 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. | | Uncategorized | |
| If I tell you that I would be disobeying the god and on that account it is impossible for me to keep quiet, you won't be persuaded by me, taking it that I am ionizing. And if I tell you that it is the greatest good for a human being to have discussions every day about virtue and the other things you hear me talking about, examining myself and others, and that the unexamined life is not livable for a human being, you will be even less persuaded. | | Uncategorized | |
| If thou continuest to take delight in idle argumentation thou mayest be qualified to combat with the sophists, but will never know how to live with men. | | Uncategorized | |
| In childhood be modest, in youth temperate, in adulthood just, and in old age prudent. | | Uncategorized | |
| It is necessary that one who really and truly fights for the right, if he is to survive even for a short time, shall act as a private man, not as a public man | | Uncategorized | |
