47 Quotes By Socrates


Be slow to fall into friendship but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.
Socrates on art

Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.
Socrates on beauty

Beauty is the bait which with delight allures man to enlarge his kind.
Socrates on beauty

Our prayers should be for blessings in general, for God knows best what is good for us.
Socrates on best

He is a man of courage who does not run away, but remains at his post and fights against the enemy.
Socrates on courage

Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.
Socrates on death

Ordinary people seem not to realize that those who really apply themselves in the right way to philosophy are directly and of their own accord preparing themselves for dying and death.
Socrates on death

Where there is reverence there is fear, but there is not reverence everywhere that there is fear, because fear presumably has a wider extension than reverence.
Socrates on fear

Be slow to fall into friendship but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.
Socrates on friendship

Our prayers should be for blessings in general, for God knows best what is good for us.
Socrates on god

The end of life is to be like God, and the soul following God will be like Him.
Socrates on god

By all means, marry. If you get a good wife, you'll become happy if you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.
Socrates on good

Our prayers should be for blessings in general, for God knows best what is good for us.
Socrates on good

My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy if not, you'll become a philosopher.
Socrates on good

Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.
Socrates on good

The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.
Socrates on good

I only wish that ordinary people had an unlimited capacity for doing harm then they might have an unlimited power for doing good.
Socrates on good

The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be.
Socrates on great

I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.
Socrates on intelligence

To know, is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge.
Socrates on knowledge