Quote

The duller eye may often see a thing sooner than the keener.

Socrates

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Socrates
Philosopher
Teacher
Sokrates
Sooner
Eye
Often
May
Thing
Duller
Keener

More quotes by Socrates

Image
Whenever a number of individuals have a common name, we assume them to have also a corresponding idea or form.
Socrates
Image
Beloved Pan and all ye other gods who haunt this place, give me beauty in the inward soul and may the outward and the inward man be one.
Socrates
Image
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
Image
The individual leads in order that those who are led can develop their potential as human beings and thereby prosper.
Socrates
Image
Be true to thine own self.
Socrates
Image
When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser.
Socrates
Image
There is a doctrine whispered in secret that a man is a prisoner who has no right to open the door and run away this is a great mystery which I do not quite understand.
Socrates
Image
No man undertakes a trade he has not learned, even the meanest yet everyone thinks himself sufficiently qualified for the hardest of all trades, that of government.
Socrates
Image
Men of Athens, I honor and love you but I shall obey God rather than you, and while I have life and strength I shall never cease from the practice and teaching of philosophy.
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
The greatest of all mysteries is the man himself.
Socrates
Image
He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.
Socrates
Image
To know thyself is the beginning of wisdom.
Socrates
Image
Living or dead, to a good man there can come no evil.
Socrates
Image
If you will take my advice you will think little of Socrates, and a great deal more of truth.
Socrates
Image
My divine sign indicates the future to me.
Socrates
Image
Wealth does not bring about excellence (aka areté), but excellence (aka areté) brings about wealth and all other public and private blessings for men.
Socrates
Image
I was afraid that by observing objects with my eyes and trying to comprehend them with each of my other senses I might blind my soul altogether.
Socrates
Image
Marry or marry not, in any either case you'll regret it
Socrates
Image
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.
Socrates