Quotes About Truth

It looks, Socrates, as though I didn't know what I was talking about then.

But why, my dear Crito, should we care about the opinion of the many? Good men, and they are the only persons who are worth considering, will think of these things truly as they occurred.

Coloro che sono capaci di vedere oltre le ombre e le bugie della propria cultura non saranno mai capiti, tanto meno creduti, dalle masse.

él cree saberlo aunque no sepa nada, y yo, no sabiendo nada, creo no saber.

The unexamined life is not worth living.

but if you wish to get better training, you must do something more than that; you must consider not only what happens if a particular hypothesis is true, but also what happens if it is not true. 135e-136a

For it is clear, on the one hand, that you have been familiar with these things for a long time —whatever you wish to signify when you utter being— and, before this we used to believe it, but now we have been perplexed.

I know that I know nothing

Always seek wisdom and live a vrituous life.

what is it that always is, but never comes to be, and what is it that comes to be† but never is?

el más sabio entre vosotros es aquel que reconoce, como Sócrates, que su sabiduría no es nada.»

No one is more hated than he who speaks the true.

justice is the giving to each man what is proper to him

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No-one is more hated, than he who speaks the truth. - (Plato)

a human being is the measure of all things. of the things that are, that they are, and of things that are not, that they are not.

La mayor perfección en la injusticia es parecer justo sin serlo." (Platón, República)

O que digo é que é pela beleza em si que as coisas belas são belas.

Always seek wisdom and live a virtuous life.

Estrangeiro - Ora, errar nada mais é do que se desviar do seu caminho a alma, quando intenta alcançar a verdade, sem passar ao lado dela o entendimento.

But a man whose actions do not agree with his words is an annoyance to me; and the better he speaks the more I hate him, and then I seem to be a hater of discourse.

it seemed to me that this man seemed to be wise, both to many other human beings and most of all to himself, but that he was not. And then I tried to show him that he supposed he was wise, but was not. So from this I became hateful both to him and to many of those present Plato,Apology

I should not be surprised that Euripides' lines are true when he says: 'But who knows whether being alive is being dead And being dead is being alive?

I think it's too much to call to call him wise, Phaedrus: only the gods deserve that label. But it would suit him better and be more appropriate to call him a lover of wisdom, or something like that.