Quote

Lies are the greatest murder. They kill the Truth.

Socrates

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Socrates
Philosopher
Teacher
Sokrates
Lies
Greatest
Lying
Truth
Murder
Kill

More quotes by Socrates

Image
Be the kind of person that you want people to think you are.
Socrates
Image
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
Image
The soul is cured of its maladies by certain incantations these incantations are beautiful reasons, from which temperance is generated in souls.
Socrates
Image
Exercise till the mind feels delight in reposing from the fatigue.
Socrates
Image
If I can assign names as well as pictures to objects, the right assignment of them we may call truth, and the wrong assignment of them falsehood.
Socrates
Image
Living or dead, to a good man there can come no evil.
Socrates
Image
This sense of wonder is the mark of the philosopher. Philosophy indeed has no other origin.
Socrates
Image
True wisdom lies in one's confession about the limits of one's knowledge.
Socrates
Image
Man's life is like a drop of dew on a leaf.
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
True perfection is a bold quest to seek. Only the willing and true of heart will seek the betterment of many.
Socrates
Image
One should never do wrong in return, nor mistreat any man, no matter how one has been mistreated by him.
Socrates
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 beauty and virtue the world over.
Socrates
Image
The friend must be like money, that before you need it, the value is known.
Socrates
Image
When you want success as badly as you want the air, then you will get it. There is no other secret of success.
Socrates
Image
It seems that God took away the minds of poets that they might better express His.
Socrates
Image
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is a habit.
Socrates
Image
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
Image
Let the questions be the curriculum.
Socrates
Image
By far the greatest and most admirable form of wisdom is that needed to plan and beautify cities and human communities.
Socrates