Inspirational Quotes by Socrates · Page 2

The beginning of wisdom is a definition of terms.

— Socrates

To know, is to know that you know nothing.

— Socrates

This is a universe that does not favor the timid.

— Socrates

The warm love has the coldest end.

— Socrates

Knowing thyself is the height of wisdom.

— Socrates

I know one thing, that I know nothing.

— Socrates

All thinking begins with wondering

— Socrates

It is better to be at odds with the whole world than, being one, to be at odds with myself,

— Socrates

YOU ARE NOT ONLY GOOD TO YOURSELF, BUT THE CAUSE OF GOODNESS IN OTHERS

— Socrates

Though flattery blossoms like friendship, yet there is a vast difference in the fruit.

— Socrates

Slanderers do not hurt me because they do not hit me.

— Socrates

Trust not a woman when she weeps, for it is her nature to weep when she wants her will.

— Socrates

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

— Socrates

Only the knowledge that comes from inside is the real Knowledge

— Socrates

A good man cannot be harmed either in life or in death.

— Socrates

Falling down is not a failure. Failure comes when you stay where you have fallen.

— Socrates

What a lot of things there are a man can do without.

— Socrates

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

— Socrates

In every person there is a sun. Just let them shine.

— Socrates

The greater the power that deigns to serve you, the more honor it demands of you.

— Socrates

The rest of the world lives to eat, while I eat to live.

— Socrates

To them, I said, the truth would be literally nothing but the shadows of the images.

— Socrates

Nothing is so well learned as that which is discovered.

— Socrates

So you would rather suffer an injustice than do an injustice?

— Socrates

This is...self-knowled ge-for a man to know what he knows, and what he does not know.

— Socrates

The beginning is the most important part, especially when dealing with anything young and tender.

— Socrates

The noblest worship is to make yourself as good and as just as you can.

— Socrates

We shall be better, braver, and more active if we believe it right to look for what we don't know.

— Socrates

Since I am convinced that I wrong no one, I am not likely to wrong myself.

— Socrates

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

— Socrates

Malice drinketh up the greater part of its own poison.

— Socrates

I love to go and see all the things I am happy without.

— Socrates

Those who want the fewest things are nearest to the gods.

— Socrates

Be true to thine own self.

— Socrates

Contentment is natural wealth.

— Socrates

Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.

— Socrates

The more I know, the more I know that I don't know.

— Socrates

To live well and honorably and justly are the same thing.

— Socrates

I shall never fear or avoid things of which I do not know...

— Socrates

It is better to suffer an injustice than to commit one

— Socrates