Inspirational Quotes by Socrates · Page 2

The warm love has the coldest end.

— Socrates

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

— Socrates

To know, is to know that you know nothing.

— Socrates

The beginning of wisdom is a definition of terms.

— Socrates

May the outward and inward man be at one.

— Socrates

She soars on her own wings.

— Socrates

Let us follow the truth whither so ever it leads.

— Socrates

The more I learn, the less I realize I know.

— Socrates

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

— Socrates

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

— 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

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

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

Virtue is the beauty of the soul.

— Socrates

My divine sign indicates the future to me.

— Socrates

Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.

— Socrates

What most counts is not merely to live, but to live right.

— Socrates

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

— Socrates

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

— Socrates

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

— Socrates

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

— 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

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

— Socrates

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

— Socrates

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

— Socrates

Nothing is so well learned as that which is discovered.

— Socrates

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

— Socrates

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

— Socrates

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

— 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

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

— Socrates

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

— Socrates

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

— Socrates

Only the knowledge that comes from inside is the real Knowledge

— Socrates

It is better to suffer an injustice than to commit one

— Socrates