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Socrates Quotes - Page 11

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Flattery is like a painted armor; only for show.

Flattery is like a painted armor; only for show.

Armor, Flattery, Shows

To fear death, my friends, is only to think ourselves wise, without being wise: for it is to think that we know what we do not know. For anything that men can tell, death may be the greatest good that can happen to them: but they fear it as if they knew quite well that it was the greatest of evils. And what is this but that shameful ignorance of thinking that we know what we do not know?

Death, Wise, Fear

The shortest and surest way to live with honor in the world, is to be in reality what we would appear to be, all human virtues increase and strengthen themselves by the practice and experience of them.

Honesty, Reality, Practice

Listen not to a tale-bearer or slanderer, for he tells thee nothing out of good-will; but as he discovereth of the secrets of others, so he will of thine in turn.

Secret, Tales, Thee

The man who is truly wise knows that he knows very little.

Wise, Men, Littles

Laws are not made for the good.

Law, Made

Are you not ashamed of your eagerness to possess as much wealth, reputation, and honors as possible, while you do not care for nor give thought to wisdom or truth, or the best possible state of your soul?

Giving, Soul, Honor

The individual leads in order that those who are led can develop their potential as human beings and thereby prosper.

Order, Individual, Humans

I prefer to be refuted than to refute, for it is a greater good for oneself to be freed from the greatest evil than to free another.

Evil, Programming, Greater Good

Admitting one's ignorance is the first step in acquiring knowledge.

Ignorance, Admitting, Firsts

You will know that the divine is so great and of such a nature that it sees and hears everything at once, is present everywhere, and is concerned with everything.

Divine, Concerned, Knows

"Memorabilia". Book by Xenophon,

I am wiser than this man, for neither of us appears to know anything great and good; but he fancies he knows something, although he knows nothing; whereas I, as I do not know anything, so I do not fancy I do. In this trifling particular, then, I appear to be wiser than he, because I do not fancy I know what I do not know.

Men, Knowing Nothing, Fancy

"Apology Of Socrates And Crito". Book by Plato, Read Books Ltd, 2016.

Antiphon, as another man gets pleasure from a good horse, or a dog, or a bird, I get even more pleasure from good friends. And if I have something good, I teach it to them, and I introduce them to others who will be useful to them with respect to virtue. And together with my friends I go through the treasures of wise men of old which they left behind written in books, and we peruse them. If we see something good, we pick it out and hold it to be a great profit, if we are able to prove useful to one another.

Wise, Wisdom, Dog

The greatest of all mysteries is the man himself.

Men, Mystery, He Man

By means of beauty all beautiful things become beautiful.

Beautiful, Mean, Beautiful Things

"Apology Of Socrates And Crito". Book by Plato, Read Books Ltd, 2016.

Nothing very new. By taking good care of yourselves you are of service to me and my family as well as yourselves, no matter what you do, even if you don't think so at present. But if you neglect yourselves and are unwilling to live, as though following tracks, in accordance with what we now say and have said in the past too, then no matter how much or how seriously you agree with me at present you will accomplish next to nothing.

Past, Thinking, Track

Either I do not corrupt the young or, if I do, it is unwillingly.

Apology, Young, Ifs

Nobody knows what death is, nor whether to man it is perchance the greatest of blessings, yet people fear it as if they surely knew it to be the worse of evils.

Blessing, Men, People

See one promontory, one mountain, one sea, one river and see all.

Nature, Philosophical, Sea

Socrates, Plato, Aristotle (1967). “Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study”

When desire, having rejected reason and overpowered judgment which leads to right, is set in the direction of the pleasure which beauty can inspire . . .

Inspire, Desire, Judgment

Remember what is unbecoming to do is also unbecoming to speak of.

Life, Remember, Speak

Since all of us desire to be happy, and since we evidently become so on account of our use—that is our good use—of other things, and since knowledge is what provides this goodness of use and also good fortune, every man must, as seems plausible, prepare himself by every means for this: to be as wise as possible. Right?

Wise, Mean, Men

Just as you ought not to attempt to cure eyes without head or head without body, so you should not treat body without soul.

Eye, Soul, Body

When our feet hurt, we hurt all over.

Hurt, Feet

For this fear of death is indeed the pretense of wisdom, and not real wisdom, being the appearance of knowing the unknown; since no one knows whether death, which they in their fear apprehend to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.

Real, Knowing, Evil

"Apology". 29a - b. By Plato. Translated by Benjamin Jowett,

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