Socrates Quotes About Children

Quotes about: Children

• An honest man is always a child.

  Socrates

  Children, Philosophy, Men

• Obligation sends the children to bed on time, but love tucks the covers in around their necks and passes out kisses and hugs. Yesterday is about experience; tomorrow is about hope; today is about transitioning from one to the other. The happiest people on earth don't have the best of everything... they make the best of everything I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.

  Socrates

  Children, Kissing, Thinking

• Fellow citizens, why do you burn and scrape every stone to gather wealth and take so little care of your children to whom you must one day relinquish all?

  Socrates

  Children, One Day, Citizens

• A painter will paint a cobbler, carpenter, or any other artist, though he knows nothing of their arts; and, if he is a good artist, he may deceive children or simple persons, when he shows them his picture of a carpenter from a distance, and they will fancy that they are looking at a real carpenter.

  Socrates

  Art, Children, Distance

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• There are a great many of these accusers, and they have been accusing me now for a great many years, and what is more, they approached you at the most impressionable age, when some of you were children or adolescents; and literally won their case by default, because there was no one to defend me.

  Socrates

  Children, Accusing Me, Years

• An honest man is always a child.
  [Lat., Semper bonus homo tiro est.]

  Socrates

  Children, Honesty, Men

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