Socrates Quotes About Inspirational

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

  • Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.

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

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

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

    "Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle".
  • Be true to thine own self.

  • Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.

    "Theaetetus" by Plato,
  • He is the richest who is content with the least.

    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.

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

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

  • Fame is the perfume of 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”
  • The fewer our wants the more we resemble the Gods.

  • The unexamined life is not worth living.

    In Plato 'Apology' 38a
  • He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.

    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

  • She soars on her own wings.

  • 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.

  • Be as you wish to seem.

  • To find yourself, think for yourself.

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Socrates

  • Born: 471 BC
  • Died: 399 BC
  • Occupation: Philosopher