8 Socrates Quotes on Truth

Socrates quotes on truth

1. By means of beauty all beautiful things become beautiful. For this appears to me the safest answer to give both to myself and others; and adhering to this, I think that I shall never fall, but that it is a safe answer both for me and any one else to give - that by means of beauty beautiful things become beautiful.

2. False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.

7. And how is not this the most reprehensible ignorance, to think that one knows what one does not know? But I, O Athenians! in this, perhaps, differ from most men; and if I should say that I am in any thing wiser than another, it would be in this, that not having a competent knowledge of the things in Hades, I also think that I have not such knowledge.

27. An honest man is always a child.

58. I was really too honest a man to be a politician and live.

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

81. The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.

82. Think not those faithful who praise all thy words and actions; but those who kindly reprove thy faults.