Wisdom Quote by Socrates — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“True philosophers make of dying their profession”

“Is it true; is it kind, or is it necessary?”

“My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a philosopher.”

“God would seem to indicate to us and not allow us to doubt that these beautiful poems are not human, or the work of man, but divine and the work of God; and that the poets are only the interpreters of the Gods...”

“Be as you wish to seem.”

“The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be.”

“Boy, the solid things you can hold in your hands are never all you've got. They're the least of what belong to you. The qualities inside you, those are what you've really got to defend yourself with.”

“we have to live today by what truth we can get today and be ready tomorrow to call it falsehood”

“I have more wisdom than any books ever written in history of times, any scripture ever written which you rhyme but this is not my purpose.”

“When the heart bends towards truth, distance shortens. When it hardens, even light cannot reach it.”

“I might be old enough to know better, but I am not old enough to do better.”

“We can no longer postpone the challenging question, How does one know that among the bedlam of voices which beset us all, one is really hearing his daimon? Inner 'voices'—experienced as actual or metaphorical ones—are notoriously untrustworthy; they can tell one anything. Many people hear voices, but there are few Joans of Arc. How about our schizophrenic patients who are instructed by their voices to bomb New York?”