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Knowledge Quotes by Socrates
- The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
- He said that there was one only good, namely, knowledge; and one only evil, namely, ignorance.
- 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…
- Prefer knowledge to wealth, for the one is transitory, the other perpetual.
- Admitting one's ignorance is the first step in acquiring knowledge ...
- The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary.There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance.
- True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.
- Since all of us desire to be happy, and since we evidently become so on account of our use—that is our good use—of other things,…
- True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing. And in knowing that you know nothing, that makes you the smartest of all.
- 'Wars, factions, and fighting,' said Socrates as he looked forward from his last hour, 'have no other origin than this same body and its lusts...…
- 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…
- True wisdom lies in one's confession about the limits of one's knowledge.
- No one can teach, if by teaching we mean the transmission of knowledge, in any mechanical fashion, from one person to another. The most that…
- A man should inure himself to voluntary labor, and not give up to indulgence and pleasure, as they beget no good constitution of body nor…
- I know what I do not know.
- You think that upon the score of fore-knowledge and divining I am infinitely inferior to the swans. When they perceive approaching death they sing more…
- I soon realized that poets do not compose their poems with knowledge, but by some inborn talent and by inspiration, like seers and prophets who…
- Only the knowledge that comes from inside is the real Knowledge
- There is no difference between knowledge and temperance; for he who knows what is good and embraces it, who knows what is bad and avoids…
- There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance
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- Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we… — Aristotle
- Those that know, do. Those that understand, teach. — Aristotle
- All men by nature desire knowledge. — Aristotle
- Salvation means knowing the truth. We do not become anything; we are what we are. Salvation [comes] by faith and not by… — Swami Vivekananda
- Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability. — Marcus Aurelius