Quote

It seems that God took away the minds of poets that they might better express His.

Socrates

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Socrates
Philosopher
Teacher
Sokrates
Took
Away
Seems
Better
Might
Poets
Mind
Express
Minds
Poet

More quotes by Socrates

Image
To know, is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge. For a man who claims to have knowledge, while actually knowing nothing, is less smarter than you, who claim to know nothing.
Socrates
Image
Some have courage in pleasures, and some in pains: some in desires, and some in fears, and some are cowards under the same conditions.
Socrates
Image
To find yourself, think for yourself.
Socrates
Image
Beauty comes first. Victory is secondary. What matters is joy.
Socrates
Image
I only wish that ordinary people had an unlimited capacity for doing harm then they might have an unlimited power for doing good.
Socrates
Image
There is no learning without remembering.
Socrates
Image
It is not the purpose of a juryman's office to give justice as a favor to whoever seems good to him, but to judge according to law, and this he has sworn to do.
Socrates
Image
I am that gadfly which God has attached to the state, and all day long and in all places am always fastening upon you, arousing and persuading and reproaching you.
Socrates
Image
A painter will paint a cobbler, carpenter, or any other artist, though he knows nothing of their arts and, if he is a good artist, he may deceive children or simple persons, when he shows them his picture of a carpenter from a distance, and they will fancy that they are looking at a real carpenter.
Socrates
Image
I don't care what people say about me. I do care about my mistakes.
Socrates
Image
In all of us, even in good men, there is a lawless wild-beast nature, which peers out in sleep.
Socrates
Image
In every person there is a sun. Just let them shine.
Socrates
Image
One who is injured ought not to return the injury, for on no account can it be right to do an injustice.
Socrates
Image
All that we know is nothing can be known.
Socrates
Image
The heart of the person before you is a mirror. See there your own form.
Socrates
Image
Serenity, regularity, absence of vanity,Sincerity, simplicity, veracity, equanimity, Fixity, non-irritability, adaptability, Humility, tenacity, integrity, nobility, magnanimity, charity, generosity, purity. Practise daily these eighteen ities You will soon attain immortality.
Socrates
Image
I was really too honest a man to be a politician and live.
Socrates
Image
People learn more on their own rather than being force fed.
Socrates
Image
The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be.
Socrates
Image
An unexamined life is a life of no account.
Socrates