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Socrates Quotes

Socrates quotes about wisdom

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I honor and love you: but why do you who are citizens of the great and mighty nation care so much about laying up the greatest amount of money and honor And reputation, and so little amount wisdom and truth and the greatest improvement of the soul? Re you not ashamed of these?... I do nothing but go about persuading you all, not to take thought for your persons and your properties, but first and chiefly to care about the greatest improvement of the soul. I tell you that virtue is not given... Socrates
Socrates quote: "True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we..."
True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us. Socrates
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. Socrates
I shall never cease from the practice and teaching of philosophy, exhorting anyone whom I meet after my manner, and convincing him, saying: O my friend, why do you who are a citizen of the great and mighty and wise city of Athens, care so much about laying up the greatest amount of money and honor and reputation, and so little about wisdom and truth and the greatest improvement of the soul, which you never regard or heed at all? Are you not ashamed of this? Socrates
Esteemed friend, citizen of Athens, the greatest city in the world, so outstanding in both intelligence and power, aren't you ashamed to care so much to make all the money you can, and to advance your reputation and prestige--while for truth and wisdom and the improvement of your soul you have no care or worry? Socrates
For the fear of death is indeed the pretense of wisdom, and not real wisdom, being a pretense of knowing the unknown; and no one know whether death, which men in their fear apprehend to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good. Is not this ignorance of a disgraceful sort, the ignorance which is the conceit that a man knows that he does not know? And in this respect only I believe myself to differ from men in general, and may perhaps claim to be wiser than they are: that whereas I... Socrates
Are you not ashamed of caring so much for the making of money and for fame and prestige, when you neither think nor care about wisdom and truth and the improvement of your soul? Socrates
Are you not ashamed of heaping up the greatest amount of money and honour and reputation, and caring so little about wisdom and truth and the greatest improvement of the soul? Socrates
Socrates quote: "Wisdom begins in wonder."
Wisdom begins in wonder. Socrates
Socrates quote: "Wonder is the beginning of wisdom."
Wonder is the beginning of wisdom. Socrates
Socrates quote: "The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing."
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing. Socrates
Socrates quote: "When you want wisdom and insight as badly as you want to..."
When you want wisdom and insight as badly as you want to breathe, it is then you shall have it. Socrates
Socrates quote: "The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms."
The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms. Socrates
Socrates quote: "To know thyself is the beginning of wisdom."
To know thyself is the beginning of wisdom. Socrates

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