Inspirational Quotes by Socrates

I only know one thing, and that is I know nothing

— Socrates

Talk in order that I may see you.

— Socrates

Happiness is unrepented pleasure.

— Socrates

Wisdom is knowing how little we know.

— Socrates

Be true to thine own self.

— Socrates

If you would seek health, look first to the spine.

— Socrates

He is the richest who is content with the least.

— Socrates

There is no learning without remembering.

— Socrates

If you will be guided by me, you will make little account of Socrates, and much more of truth.

— Socrates

The body cannot be cured without regard for the soul.

— Socrates

He said that there was one only good, namely, knowledge; and one only evil, namely, ignorance.

— Socrates

It is best and easiest not to discredit others but to prepare oneself to be as good as possible.

— Socrates

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

— Socrates

If what you want to tell me is neither True nor Good nor even Useful, why tell it to me at all

— Socrates

Some people put walls up, not to keep people out, but to see who cares enough to knock them down.

— Socrates

Either I do not corrupt the young or, if I do, it is unwillingly.

— Socrates

Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard…

— Socrates

There is no difference between knowledge and temperance; for he who knows what is good and embraces it, who knows what is…

— Socrates

Often when looking at a mass of things for sale, he would say to himself, 'How many things I have no need…

— Socrates

Not by wisdom do they [poets] make what they compose, but by a gift of nature and an inspiration similar to that…

— Socrates

True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing. And in knowing that you know nothing, that makes you the smartest of…

— Socrates

I have lived long enough to learn how much there is I can really do without… He is nearest to God who…

— Socrates

If a man comes to the door of poetry untouched by the madness of the Muses, believing that technique alone will make…

— Socrates

Regard your good name as the richest jewel you can possibly be possessed of - for credit is like fire; when once…

— Socrates

The universe really is motion & nothing else.

— Socrates

How many things are there which I do not want.

— Socrates

Death offers mankind a full view of truth.

— Socrates

All things in moderation, including moderation.

— Socrates

The only thing I know is that I know nothing

— Socrates

I know what I do not know.

— Socrates

Contentment is natural wealth.

— Socrates

The fewer our wants the more we resemble the Gods.

— Socrates

Follow the argument wherever it leads.

— Socrates

When our feet hurt, we hurt all over.

— Socrates

I am very conscious that I am not wise at all.

— Socrates

How many things I can do without!

— Socrates

Let us follow the truth whither so ever it leads.

— Socrates

She soars on her own wings.

— Socrates

May the outward and inward man be at one.

— Socrates

Virtue is the beauty of the soul.

— Socrates