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

“Mankind is made of two kinds of people: wise people who know they're fools, and fools who think they are wise.”

“God takes away the minds of poets, and uses them as his ministers, as he also uses diviners and holy prophets, in order that we who hear them may know them to be speaking not of themselves who utter these priceless words in a state of unconsciousness, but that God himself is the speaker, and that through them he is conversing with us.”

“The hour of departure has arrived, and we go our separate ways, I to die, and you to live. Which of these two is better only God knows.”

“Be as you wish to seem.”

“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...”

“Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty.”

“Only when compassion is present will people allow themselves to see the truth.”

“When misguided public opinion honors what is despicable and despises what is honorable, punishes virtue and rewards vice, encourages what is harmful and discourages what is useful, applauds falsehood and smothers truth under indifference or insult, a nation turns it's back on progress and can be restored only by the terrible lessons of catastrophe.”

“Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last. To pluck the mask from the face of the Pharisee, is not to lift an impious hand to the Crown of Thorns.”

“The only truth was whatever you could make someone believe.”

“God is willing to walk the earth again incarnate in us.”

“We are the decisive factor in the affairs of the universe.”