Socrates refused to flee Athens when the Senate gave him the chance to, instead he chose to be put to death. This was his reasoning.

Socrates: What was his reasoning? ?Only thing I know is that I know nothing.? The quote given definitely gets a person thinking. The quote given was spoken from the mouth of Socrates, arguably, as is everything in philosophy, the greatest philosopher of all time. Socrates taught in a way unknown before his time. He asked questions. To start a conversation, then in the end it would end up with the person agreeing that they did …showed first 75 words of 571 total…

…showed last 75 words of 571 total…like that and no matter how much you absolutely prove them wrong and they know it, they will never admit it because they have too much pride. Socrates was definitely not like that, he knew that he knew nothing. So maybe it was because he thought he knew nothing that he did not try and escape his punishment. Maybe he thought that if a majority of 500 people thought he was wrong, maybe he was wrong.