{"author":"Socrates","author_id":"Socrates","total_quotes":141,"quotes":[{"text":"Let him who would move the world first move himself.","author":"Socrates","tags":["change","self-determination","self-development"],"id":1282,"author_id":"Socrates"},{"text":"...[I]f at the time of its release the soul is tainted and impure, because it has always associated with the body and cared for it and loved it, and has been so beguiled by the body and its passions and pleasures that nothing seems real to it but those physical things which can be touched and seen and eaten and drunk and used for sexual enjoyment; and if it is accustomed to hate and fear and avoid what is invisible and hidden from our eyes, but intelligible and comprehensible by philosophy - if the soul is in this state, do you think that it will escape independent and uncontaminated?","author":"Socrates","tags":["addiction","faithlessness","godlessness","sin","vice"],"id":4745,"author_id":"Socrates"},{"text":"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 ...","author":"Socrates","tags":["to-live-by"],"id":9716,"author_id":"Socrates"},{"text":"I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.","author":"Socrates","tags":["self-awareness","self-knowledge"],"id":11402,"author_id":"Socrates"},{"text":"Get not your friends by bare compliments, but by giving them sensible tokens of your love.","author":"Socrates","tags":["compliments","friendship","love","tokens"],"id":12548,"author_id":"Socrates"},{"text":"The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.","author":"Socrates","tags":["inspiration","integrity","reputation"],"id":16923,"author_id":"Socrates"},{"text":"I went to interview a man with a high reputation for wisdom, because I felt that here if anywhere I should succeed in disproving the oracle and pointing out to my divine authority 'You said that I was the wisest of men, but here is a man who is wiser than I am.' Well, I gave a thorough examination to this person... And in conversation with him I formed the impression that although in many people's opinion, and especially in his own, he appeared to be wise, in fact he was not. Then when I began to try to show him that he only thought he was wise and was not really so, my efforts were resented both by him and by many of the other people present. However, I reflected as I walked away: 'Well, I am certainly wiser than this man. It is only too likely that neither of us has any knowledge to boast of; but he thinks that he knows something which he does not know, whereas I am quite conscious of my ignorance. At any rate it seems that I am wiser than he is to this small extent, that I do not think that I know what I do not know... [A]s I pursued my investigation at the god's command,... My honest impression was... That the people with the greatest reputations were almost entirely deficient, while others who were supposed to be their inferiors were much better qualified in practical intelligence.","author":"Socrates","tags":["good-sense","intelligence","knowledge","practical-wisdom","wisdom"],"id":28031,"author_id":"Socrates"},{"text":"I am a citizen  not of Athens or Greece  but of the world.","author":"Socrates","tags":["citizen"],"id":35581,"author_id":"Socrates"},{"text":"Beauty is the bait which with delight allures man to enlarge his kind.","author":"Socrates","tags":["man","kind","delight "],"id":35783,"author_id":"Socrates"},{"text":"Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.","author":"Socrates","tags":["men","yourself","you "],"id":35876,"author_id":"Socrates"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":141,"pages":15,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}