Skip to content

Fancy Quote by Socrates

“I am wiser than this man, for neither of us appears to know anything great and good; but he fancies he knows something, although he knows nothing; whereas I, as I do not know anything, so I do not fancy I do. In this trifling particular, then, I appear to be wiser than he, because I do not fancy I…” quote by Socrates — Download Open image

“I am wiser than this man, for neither of us appears to know anything great and good; but he fancies he knows something, although he knows nothing; whereas I, as I do not know anything, so I do not fancy I do. In this trifling particular, then, I appear to be wiser than he, because I do not fancy I know what I do not know.”

★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.3 out of 5 (9 ratings)

Fancy Knowing nothing Knows Men Particular Trifling Wisdom Wiser

More by Socrates

By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.

Image

Falling down is not a failure. Failure comes when you stay where you have fallen.

Image

Do not go through life like leaf blown from here to there believing whatever you are told.

Image

If the whole world depends on today's youth, I can't see the world lasting another 100 years.

Image

“I only know, I know nothing”

Image

I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.

Image

If measure and symmetry are absent from any composition in any degree, ruin awaits both the ingredients and the composition... Measure and symmetry are…

Image

Marry a good woman, and be happy the rest of your life. Or, marry a bad, and become a good philosopher

Image

“For the fear of death is indeed the pretense of wisdom, and not real wisdom, being a pretense of knowing the unknown; and no…

Image

There is no difference between knowledge and temperance; for he who knows what is good and embraces it, who knows what is bad and…

Image

Besides, it is a shame to let yourself grow old through neglect before seeing how you can develop the maximum beauty and strength of…

Image

The greatest blessing granted to mankind come by way of madness, which is a divine gift.

Image

Explore all 579 Socrates quotes

More Fancy quotes

“What does it mean to be a self-conscious animal? The idea is ludicrous, if it is not monstrous. It means to know that one…

Image

My mind shrank from the menace sweeping down on us, as children's do from belief in death and misfortune, vainly clinging to the fancy…

Sylvia Pankhurst

Image

'Sex and The City' was made to correct the myth that if you were single at a certain age, you were a leper. Its…

Michael Patrick King

Image

There is no science without fancy and no art without fact.

Vladimir Nabokov

Image

When we idealize the real, we sacrifice to artistic fancy.

Image

For now, I'm supposing that all movements are equal, which they're not, except in this respect: that none of them gives a damn about…

Image

Man preys on man; and you mourn for the idle tapestry that decorated a gothic pillar, and the dronish bell that summoned the fat…

Mary Wollstonecraft

Image

If I am ever obscure in my expressions, do not fancy that therefore I am deep. If I were really deep, all the world…

Charles Kingsley

Image

Poetical taste is the only magician whose wand is not broken. No hand, except its own, can dissolve the fabric of beauty in which…

Robert Aris Willmott

Image

The criterion of true beauty is, that it increases in examination; of false, that it lessens. There is something, therefore, in true beauty that…

George Grenville

Image

Now I'm having to live with sales of around 50,000 per album - but I'm pretty content with my place in the general scheme…

Image

My friend told me he was going to a fancy dress party as an Italian island. I said to him, ‘Don’t be Sicily’.

Image

Browse all 1,398 Fancy quotes