We shall be better, braver, and more active if we believe it right to look for what we don't know. — Socrates Copy Share Image
If you will take my advice you will think little of Socrates, and a great deal more of truth. — Socrates Copy Share Image
Sometimes you have to let go to see if there was anything worth holding onto. — Socrates Copy Share Image
If you can do only a little. Do what you can. What you cannot enforce, do not command. — Socrates Copy Share Image
If what you want to tell me is neither True nor Good nor even Useful, why tell it to me at all — Socrates Copy Share Image
In every sort of danger there are various ways of winning through, if one is ready to do and say anything whatever. — Socrates Copy Share Image
Nobody knows what death is, nor whether to man it is perchance the greatest of blessings, yet people fear it as if… — Socrates Copy Share Image
If thou continuous to take delight in idle argumentation thou mayest be qualified to combat with the sophists, but will never know… — Socrates Copy Share Image
I do nothing but go about persuading you all, old and young alike, not to take thought for your persons or your… — Socrates Copy Share Image
All of the wisdom of this world is but a tiny raft upon which we must set sail when we leave this… — Socrates Copy Share Image
By all implies marry if you get a great wife/husband, you are going to be pleased. If you get a bad a… — Socrates Copy Share Image
If I can assign names as well as pictures to objects, the right assignment of them we may call truth, and the… — Socrates Copy Share Image
If I had engaged in politics, O men of Athens, I should have perished long ago, and done no good either to… — Socrates Copy Share Image
You are wrong, sir, if you think that a man who is any good at all should take into account the risk… — Socrates Copy Share Image
No one can teach, if by teaching we mean the transmission of knowledge, in any mechanical fashion, from one person to another.… — Socrates Copy Share Image
If all the misfortunes of mankind were cast into a public stack in order to be equally distributed among the whole species,… — Socrates Copy Share Image
...one thing I am ready to fight for as long as I can, in word and act: that is, that we shall… — Socrates Copy Share Image
Do you suppose that I should have lived as long as I have if I had moved in the sphere of public… — Socrates Copy Share Image
Virtue is the nursing-mother of all human pleasures, who, in rendering them just, renders them also pure and permanent; in moderating them,… — Socrates Copy Share Image
To fear death is nothing other than to think oneself wise when one is not. For it is to think one knows… — Socrates Copy Share Image
We are in fact convinced that if we are ever to have pure knowledge of anything, we must get rid of the… — Socrates Copy Share Image
Nothing very new. By taking good care of yourselves you are of service to me and my family as well as yourselves,… — Socrates Copy Share Image
Antiphon, as another man gets pleasure from a good horse, or a dog, or a bird, I get even more pleasure from… — Socrates Copy Share Image
Most people, including ourselves, live in a world of relative ignorance. We are even comfortable with that ignorance, because it is all… — Socrates Copy Share Image
I am quite ready to acknowledge . . . that I ought to be grieved at death, if I were not persuaded… — Socrates Copy Share Image
“Neither in war nor yet at law ought any man to use every way of escaping death. For often in battle there… — Socrates Copy Share Image
If the whole world depends on today's youth, I can't see the world lasting another 100 years. — Socrates Copy Share Image
If you will be guided by me, you will make little account of Socrates, and much more of truth. — Socrates Copy Share Image
Who knows if to live is to be dead, and to be dead, to live? And we really, it may be, are… — Socrates Copy Share Image
If measure and symmetry are absent from any composition in any degree, ruin awaits both the ingredients and the composition... Measure and… — Socrates Copy Share Image
A painter will paint a cobbler, carpenter, or any other artist, though he knows nothing of their arts; and, if he is… — Socrates Copy Share Image
Besides, it is a shame to let yourself grow old through neglect before seeing how you can develop the maximum beauty and… — Socrates Copy Share Image
The young people of today think of nothing but themselves. They have no reverence for parents or old age. They are impatient… — Socrates Copy Share Image
If we pursue our habit of eating animals, and if our neighbour follows a similar path, will we need to go to… — Socrates Copy Share Image
By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher. — Socrates Copy Share Image
Falling down is not a failure. Failure comes when you stay where you have fallen. — Socrates Copy Share Image
Do not go through life like leaf blown from here to there believing whatever you are told. — Socrates Copy Share Image
If the whole world depends on today's youth, I can't see the world lasting another 100 years. — Socrates Copy Share Image
If measure and symmetry are absent from any composition in any degree, ruin awaits both the ingredients and the composition... Measure and symmetry are… — Socrates Copy Share Image
Marry a good woman, and be happy the rest of your life. Or, marry a bad, and become a good philosopher — Socrates Copy Share Image
“For the fear of death is indeed the pretense of wisdom, and not real wisdom, being a pretense of knowing the unknown; and no… — Socrates Copy Share Image
There is no difference between knowledge and temperance; for he who knows what is good and embraces it, who knows what is bad and… — Socrates Copy Share Image
Besides, it is a shame to let yourself grow old through neglect before seeing how you can develop the maximum beauty and strength of… — Socrates Copy Share Image
The greatest blessing granted to mankind come by way of madness, which is a divine gift. — Socrates Copy Share Image
