Socrates

Origin : Greek

One of The Founders of Western Philosophy. Socrates born on 469 BC, and passed away on 399 BC, leaving behind a legacy that continues to inspire generations. Over the past NaN years, we have thoughtfully curated a selection of 45 powerful, inspirational, and motivational quotes - carefully handpicked from an extensive archive of life lessons and timeless wisdom. This legendary quote writer was born in greek and went on to share won inspiring words with the world, leaving behind a global legacy that transcends borders.

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Quotes of Socrates

Timeless words and powerful thoughts from Socrates - discover the wisdom, inspiration, and voice behind the quotes that continue to resonate

He is a man of courage who does not run away, but remains at his post and fights against the enemy.

I only wish that ordinary people had an unlimited capacity for doing harm; then they might have an unlimited power for doing good.

Ordinary people seem not to realize that those who really apply themselves in the right way to philosophy are directly and of their own accord preparing themselves for dying and death.

The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.

If a man is proud of his wealth, he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.

It is not living that matters, but living rightly.

Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.

Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.

Beauty is the bait which with delight allures man to enlarge his kind.

I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean.

Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.

Where there is reverence there is fear, but there is not reverence everywhere that there is fear, because fear presumably has a wider extension than reverence.

One who is injured ought not to return the injury, for on no account can it be right to do an injustice; and it is not right to return an injury, or to do evil to any man, however much we have suffered from him.