Words and actions Quotes by Socrates

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

Falling down is not a failure. Failure comes when you stay where you have fallen.

— Socrates

Do not go through life like leaf blown from here to there believing whatever you are told.

— Socrates

If the whole world depends on today's youth, I can't see the world lasting another 100 years.

— Socrates

“I only know, I know nothing”

— Socrates

I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.

— Socrates

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

Marry a good woman, and be happy the rest of your life. Or, marry a bad, and become a good philosopher

— Socrates

“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

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

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

The greatest blessing granted to mankind come by way of madness, which is a divine gift.

— Socrates