The invention of writing will produce forgetfulness in the minds of those who learn to use it, because they will not practice… — Socrates Copy Share Image
The soul, like the body, accepts by practice whatever habit one wishes it to contact. — Socrates Copy Share Image
...in the acquisition of this blessing human nature can find no better helper than Love. I declare that it is the duty… — Socrates Copy Share Image
Men of Athens, I honor and love you; but I shall obey God rather than you, and while I have life and… — Socrates Copy Share Image
“...[I]n any inquiry you are likely to attain more nearly to knowledge of your object in proportion to the care and accuracy… — Socrates Copy Share Image
The shortest and surest way to live with honor in the world, is to be in reality what we would appear 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
