Socrates Quotes about Inspirational

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

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

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”

To find yourself, think for yourself.

Socrates

Inspirational, Life, Motivational

The unexamined life is not worth living.

Socrates

Inspirational, Life, Motivational

In Plato 'Apology' 38a

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

Socrates

Inspirational, Friendship, Best Friend

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”

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

Socrates

Inspirational, Life, Reading

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

Socrates

Inspirational, Anger, Helping Others

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".

Be true to thine own self.

Socrates

Inspirational, Life, Self

Be as you wish to seem.

Socrates

Inspirational, Integrity, Hypocrisy

She soars on her own wings.

Socrates

Inspirational, Wings, Scrapbooking

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”

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

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”

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