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Thinking Quotes by Socrates
- To find yourself, think for yourself.
- 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…
- You are wrong, sir, if you think that a man who is any good at all should take into account the risk of life or…
- To fear death, gentlemen, is no other than to think oneself wise when one is not, to think one knows what one does not know.
- Think not those faithful who praise all thy words and actions, but those who kindly reprove thy faults.
- To fear death, my friends, is only to think ourselves wise, without being wise: for it is to think that we know what we do…
- To fear death is nothing other than to think oneself wise when one is not. For it is to think one knows what one does…
- Nothing very new. By taking good care of yourselves you are of service to me and my family as well as yourselves, no matter what…
- The young people of today think of nothing but themselves. They have no reverence for parents or old age. They are impatient of all restraint.…
- No man undertakes a trade he has not learned, even the meanest; yet everyone thinks himself sufficiently qualified for the hardest of all trades, that…
- Why should we pay so much attention to what the majority thinks?
- Most people, including ourselves, live in a world of relative ignorance. We are even comfortable with that ignorance, because it is all we know. When…
- 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…
- If you will take my advice you will think little of Socrates, and a great deal more of truth.
- 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…
- All thinking begins with wondering
- If all the misfortunes of mankind were cast into a public stack in order to be equally distributed among the whole species, those who now…
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