Socrates Believe Quotations

Do not go through life like leaf blown from here to there believing whatever you are told.

When you propose ridiculous things to believe, too many men will choose to believe nothing at all.

To Believe without evidence and demonstration is an act of ignorance and folly

We shall be better, braver, and more active if we believe it right to look for what we don't know.

...one thing I am ready to fight for as long as I can, in word and act: that is, that we shall be better, braver and more active men if we believe it right to look for what we don't know than if we believe there is no point in looking because what we don't know we can never discover.

I believe that we cannot live better than in seeking to become better, nor more agreeably than having a clear conscience.

If a man comes to the door of poetry untouched by the madness of the Muses, believing that technique alone will make him a good poet, he and his sane compositions never reach perfection, but are utterly eclipsed by the performances of the inspired madman.

Be of good hope in the face of death. Believe in this one truth for certain, that no evil can befall a good man either in life or death, and that his fate is not a matter of indifference to the gods.

The uninitiated are those who believe in nothing except what they can grasp in their hands, and who deny the existence of all that is invisible.

I know you won't believe me, but the highest form of Human Excellence is to question oneself and others.