Socrates Quotes on Wisdom & Knowledge (9 Quotes)


    There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance.

    We are in fact convinced that if we are ever to have pure knowledge of anything, we must get rid of the body and contemplate things by themselves with the soul by itself. It seems, to judge from the argument, that the wisdom which we desire and upon which we profess to have set our hearts will be attainable only when we are dead and not in our lifetime.

    To know, is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge.

    The beginning of wisdom is a definition of terms.



    I thought to myself, 'I am wiser than this man neither of us knows anything that is really worthwhile, but he thinks he has knowledge when he has not, while I, having no knowledge, do not think that I have. I seem, at any rate, to be a little wiser than he is on this point I do not think that I know what I do not know.

    The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.

    The only true knowledge, consists in knowing, that we know nothing,

    Oh dear Pan and all the other Gods of this place, grant that I may be beautiful inside. Let all my external possessions be in friendly harmony with what is within. May I consider the wise man rich. As for gold, let me have as much as a moderate man could bear and carry with him.


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