Socrates Quotes

169 Socrates quotes by 131 unique authors

It was the first and most striking characteristic of Socrates never to become heated in discourse, never to utter an injurious or insulting word --… — Epictetus
Socrates said the perfect society would be based on a great lie. People would be told that lie from the cradle, and they would believe… — Anne Frasier
I answer, Socrates, that rhetoric is the art of persuasion in courts of law and other assemblies, as I was just now saying, and about… — Gorgias
One is not unpopular because he uses peculiar expressions; that just so happens; such terms become a fad, and by and by everybody, down to… — Soren Kierkegaard
The usual picture of Socrates is of an ugly little plebeian who inspired a handsome young nobleman to write long dialogues on large topics. — Richard Rorty
I am encouraged as I look at some of those who have listened to their "different drum": Einstein was hopeless at school math and commented… — Madeleine L'Engle
SOCRATES: Perhaps we may be wrong; if so, you in your wisdom should convince us that we are mistaken in preferring justice to injustice. THRASYMACHUS:… — Plato
My idea of philosophy is that if it is not relevant to human problems, if it does not tell us how we can go about… — Angela Davis
Persecution cannot harm him who stands by Truth. Did not Socrates fall proudly a victim in body? Was not Paul stoned for the sake of… — Khalil Gibran
Socrates gave no diplomas or degrees, and would have subjected any disciple who demanded one to a disconcerting catechism on the nature of true knowledge. — G. M. Trevelyan
Genial manners are good, and power of accommodation to any circumstance, but the high prize of life, the crowning fortune of a man is to… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
I am a humanist because I think humanity can, with constant moral guidance, create reasonably decent societies. I think that young people who want to… — James A. Michener
It's no disgrace to be a private, you know. Socrates was a plain foot soldier, a hoplite. — Saul Bellow
(Socrates) said there were only two possibilities. Either the soul is immortal or, after death, things would be again as blank as they were before… — Saul Bellow
In a speech, the columnist Charles Krauthammer.... offered a new version of Socrates' famous saying, "The unexamined life is not worth living." In our age… — John Leo
The highest wisdom and the highest genius have been invariably accompanied with cheerfulness. We have sufficient proofs on record that Shakespeare and Socrates were the… — Thomas Love Peacock
... I was reminded of a remark of Willa Cather's, that you can't paint sunlight, you can only paint what it does with shadows on… — Wallace Stegner
Socrates wrote nothing. Christ wrote nothing. — Iris Murdoch
Socrates' fame spread all over Greece, and the most respected and educated men from all around came to him, in order to enjoy his friendly… — Moses Mendelssohn
When Socrates was about 30, and his father was long dead, he was still pursuing the art of sculpture, but from necessity, and without much… — Moses Mendelssohn
Socrates had a student named Plato, Plato had a student named Aristotle, and Aristotle had a student named Alexander the Great. — Old Tom Morris
If you will be guided by me, you will make little account of Socrates, and much more of truth. — Socrates
In New York one lives in the moment rather more than Socrates advised, so that at a party or alone in your room it will… — Harold Brodkey
Socrates famously said that the unconsidered life is not worth living. He meant that a life lived without forethought or principle is a life so… — A.C. Grayling
In Socrates' thought the two marks of individual self-consciousness appear; it is practical and it is social. — James Mark Baldwin

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