Socrates Inspirational Quotes

Quotes about: Inspirational

• Be as you wish to seem.

  Socrates

  Inspirational, Integrity, Hypocrisy

• True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.

  Socrates

  Inspirational, Wisdom, Philosophy

• To find yourself, think for yourself.

  Socrates

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

• Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others.

  Socrates

  Inspirational, Anger, Helping Others

• There is no possession more valuable than a good and faithful friend.

  Socrates

  Inspirational, Friendship, Best Friend

• The unexamined life is not worth living.

  Socrates

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  In Plato 'Apology' 38a

• Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.

  Socrates

  Inspirational, Life, Meaningful

  "Theaetetus" by Plato,

• 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.

  Socrates

  Inspirational, Depression, Believe

• Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.

  Socrates

  Inspirational, Life, Beauty

  Socrates, Plato, Aristotle (1967). “Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study”

• The only thing I know is that I know nothing

  Socrates

  Inspirational, Philosophical, Learning

• He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.

  Socrates

  Inspirational, Life, Happiness

  Socrates, Plato, Aristotle (1967). “Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study”

• She soars on her own wings.

  Socrates

  Inspirational, Wings, Scrapbooking

• Prefer knowledge to wealth, for the one is transitory, the other perpetual.

  Socrates

  Inspirational, Life, Reading

• Be true to thine own self.

  Socrates

  Inspirational, Life, Self

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

  Socrates

  Inspirational, Success, Men

• Fame is the perfume of heroic deeds.

  Socrates

  Inspirational, Philosophical, Heroic Deeds

  Socrates, Plato, Aristotle (1967). “Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study”

• He is the richest who is content with the least.

  Socrates

  Inspirational, Greek, Contentment

  Socrates, Plato, Aristotle (1967). “Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study”

• Give me beauty in the inward soul; and may the outward and inward may be one.

  Socrates

  Inspirational, Men, Inward

  "Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle".

• Regard your good name as the richest jewel you can possibly be possessed of - for credit is like fire; when once you have kindled it you may easily preserve it, but if you once extinguish it, you will find it an arduous task to rekindle it again. The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.

  Socrates

  Inspirational, Jewels, Names

• The fewer our wants the more we resemble the Gods.

  Socrates

  Inspirational, Life, God

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