Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
The uninitiated are those who believe in nothing except what they can grasp in their hands, and who deny the existence of all that is invisible.
Socrates
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Socrates
Philosopher
Teacher
Sokrates
Existence
Hands
Nothing
Uninitiated
Believe
Grasp
Philosophical
Invisible
Deny
Except
More quotes by Socrates
If all the misfortunes of mankind were cast into a public stack in order to be equally distributed among the whole species, those who now think themselves the most unhappy would prefer the share they are already possessed of before that which would fall to them by such a division.
Socrates
One who is injured ought not to return the injury, for on no account can it be right to do an injustice.
Socrates
It is best and easiest not to discredit others but to prepare oneself to be as good as possible.
Socrates
The understanding of mathematics is necessary for a sound grasp of ethics.
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 avoids it, is learned and temperate.
Socrates
Obscurity is dispelled by augmenting the light of discernment, not by attacking the darkness.
Socrates
Creation is man's immortality and brings him nearest to the gods.
Socrates
All wars are fought for the acquisition of wealth
Socrates
It is not difficult to avoid death. It is much more difficult to avoid wickedness, for it runs faster than death.
Socrates
The man who is truly wise knows that he knows very little.
Socrates
All of the wisdom of this world is but a tiny raft upon which we must set sail when we leave this earth. If only there was a firmer foundation upon which to sail, perhaps some divine word.
Socrates
God does not deal directly with man: it is by means of spirits that all the intercourse and communication of gods with men, both in waking life and in sleep, is carried on.
Socrates
Pride divides the men, humility joins them.
Socrates
When desire, having rejected reason and overpowered judgment which leads to right, is set in the direction of the pleasure which beauty can inspire, and when again under the influence of its kindred desires it is moved with violent motion towards the beauty of corporeal forms, it acquires a surname from this very violent motion, and is called love.
Socrates
Be slow to fall into friendship but when thou art in, continue firm & constant.
Socrates
You are wrong, sir, if you think that a man who is any good at all should take into account the risk of life or death he should look to this only in his actions, whether what he does is right or wrong, whether he is acting like a good or a bad man.
Socrates
To know thyself is the beginning of wisdom.
Socrates
Wisest is he who knows he knows not.
Socrates
Since I am convinced that I wrong no one, I am not likely to wrong myself.
Socrates
In every person there is a sun. Just let them shine.
Socrates
