If you will take my advice you will think little of Socrates, and a great deal more of truth. — 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
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
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
Think not those faithful who praise all thy words and actions, but those who kindly reprove thy faults. — 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
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
Obligation sends the children to bed on time, but love tucks the covers in around their necks and passes out kisses and… — Socrates Copy Share Image
To fear death, gentlemen, is no other than to think oneself wise when one is not, to think one knows what one… — 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
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
You think that upon the score of fore-knowledge and divining I am infinitely inferior to the swans. When they perceive approaching death… — Socrates Copy Share Image
Well I am certainly wiser than this man. It is only too likely that neither of us has any knowledge to boast… — Socrates Copy Share Image
To fear death, my friends, is only to think ourselves wise, without being wise: for it is to think that we know… — Socrates Copy Share Image
No man undertakes a trade he has not learned, even the meanest; yet everyone thinks himself sufficiently qualified for the hardest of… — 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
