Ignorance Quotes by Socrates

The man who is truly wise knows that he knows very little.

— Socrates

Awareness of ignorance is the beginning of wisdom.

— Socrates

I know nothing but the certainty of my own ignorance.

— Socrates

I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.

— Socrates

There is but one evil, ignorance.

— Socrates

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

— Socrates

The true Wisdom is in recognizing our own ignorance.

— Socrates

There are two kinds of disease of the soul, vice and ignorance.

— Socrates

The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary.There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance.

— Socrates

The bad one is that way because of the ignorance, therefore he can be healed with wisdom.

— Socrates

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

— Socrates

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

— Socrates

To Believe without evidence and demonstration is an act of ignorance and folly

— Socrates

Admitting one's ignorance is the first step in acquiring knowledge ...

— Socrates

I must first know myself, as the Delphian inscription says; to be curious about that which is not my concern, while I…

— Socrates

To fear death, my friends, is only to think ourselves wise, without being wise: for it is to think that we know…

— Socrates

Well I am certainly wiser than this man. It is only too likely that neither of us has any knowledge to boast…

— Socrates

Most people, including ourselves, live in a world of relative ignorance. We are even comfortable with that ignorance, because it is all…

— Socrates

“I examined the poets, and I look on them as people whose talent overawes both themselves and others, people who present themselves…

— Socrates

“For the fear of death is indeed the pretense of wisdom, and not real wisdom, being a pretense of knowing the unknown;…

— Socrates