Ifs Quote by Socrates Download Open image “If what you want to tell me is neither True nor Good nor even Useful, why tell it to me at all” — Socrates ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.7 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Ifs Inspirational Love Want What you want
The important things are not worth knowing because they are useful. They are worth knowing because they are true. — Andrew Sullivan Copy Share Image
To the believers it is true. To the wise it is false. To the leaders it is useful. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
What my thing is, I tell most of the time the truth, and sometimes it's good for me, sometimes it's bad. But, it's true. — Mark Hunt Copy Share Image
The great advantage about telling the truth is that nobody ever believes it. — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
To see what isn't true is easy. But to see what is true will take some doing. — Janwillem van de Wetering Copy Share Image
The truth is not always useful, not always good. It’s like putting your faith in water. Yes, we need the rain, but too much… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The truth is funny. Honest discovery, observation, and reaction is better than contrived invention. — Del Close Copy Share Image
The usefullest truths are plainest; and while we keep to them, our differences cannot rise high. — William Penn 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
Women still, when they have breast cancer, go to work; they still lead their lives. They have to. I just did what I was… — Monica Potter Copy Share Image
Most of us are convinced that we are our egos, which is who we think we are. The ego is part of our incarnation.… — Ram Dass Copy Share Image
Histories never conclude; they just pause their prose. Their stories are, if they are truthful, untidy affairs, resistant to windings-up and sortings-out. They beat… — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
If you ask an introvert a question, wait until she thinks about it. Introverts think before speaking, not through speaking. If you want to… — Laurie Helgoe Copy Share Image
Many individuals spend a considerable portion of their lifetimes in terror of one imagined catastrophe or another. The classic is that your immortal soul… — L. Neil Smith Copy Share Image
If you restore a car, and you're making money, then you're doing it wrong. — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
I understand that it's the music that keeps me alive... That's my lifeblood. And to give that up for, like, the TV, the cars,… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
If we gave up our freedom as the price of security, we would no longer be the great nation that we are. — Ruth Bader Ginsburg Copy Share Image
If my campaign is not in the debate, we will not be talking about how we really fix this problem of endless and expanding… — Jill Stein Copy Share Image
Nothing is so powerful as an insight into human nature... what compulsions drive a man, what instincts dominate his action. If you know these… — William Bernbach Copy Share Image