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Wisdom Quotes by Socrates
- Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.
- The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
- Wisdom begins in wonder.
- True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.
- Be as you wish to seem.
- 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…
- The hour of departure has arrived and we go our ways; I to die, and you to live. Which is better? Only God knows.
- The beginning of wisdom is a definition of terms.
- Are you not ashamed of heaping up the greatest amount of money and honor and reputation, and caring so little about wisdom and truth and…
- True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.
- One thing I know, that I know nothing. This is the source of my wisdom.
- 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.…
- I have not sought during my life to amass wealth and to adorn my body, but I have sought to adorn my soul with the…
- The Spirit is neither good nor bad, it runs where the wild heart leads" "Wisdom begins in wonder.
- People learn more on their own rather than being force fed.
- By far the greatest and most admirable form of wisdom is that needed to plan and beautify cities and human communities.
- 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…
- Why should we pay so much attention to what the majority thinks?
- When you want wisdom and insight as badly as you want to breathe, it is then you shall have it.
- Knowing thyself is the height of wisdom.
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- We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. — Aristotle
- I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. — Aristotle
- Patience is the companion of wisdom. — Saint Augustine
- The wise are wise only because they love. The fool are fools only because they think they can understand love. — Paulo Coelho