Socrates Quotes About Wisdom
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The Delphic Oracle said I was the wisest of all the Greeks. It is because that I alone, of all the Greeks, know that I know nothing.
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The beginning of wisdom is a definition of terms.
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The hour of departure has arrived and we go our ways; I to die, and you to live. Which is better? Only God knows.
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The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be.
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To live well and honorably and justly are the same thing.
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Wisdom adorneth riches and casteth a shadow over poverty.
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Antiphon, as another man gets pleasure from a good horse, or a dog, or a bird, I get even more pleasure from good friends. And if I have something good, I teach it to them, and I introduce them to others who will be useful to them with respect to virtue. And together with my friends I go through the treasures of wise men of old which they left behind written in books, and we peruse them. If we see something good, we pick it out and hold it to be a great profit, if we are able to prove useful to one another.
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True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.
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Wisdom begins in wonder.
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When you want wisdom and insight as badly as you want to breathe, it is then you shall have it.
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Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.
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He is a man of courage who does not run away, but remains at his post and fights against the enemy.
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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.
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True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.
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He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.
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People learn more on their own rather than being force fed.
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Well I am certainly wiser than this man. It is only too likely that neither of us has any knowledge to boast of; but he thinks that he knows something which he does not know, whereas I am quite conscious of my ignorance. At any rate it seems that I am wiser than he is to this small extent, that I do not think that I know what I do not know.
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The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
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Why should we pay so much attention to what the majority thinks?
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Think not those faithful who praise all thy words and actions, but those who kindly reprove thy faults.
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Wisdom is knowing how little we know.
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