"The only true wisdom is knowing you know…" — Socrates
"The only true wisdom is knowing you know nothing"
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331 Quotes by Socrates
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Contentment is natural wealth.
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The comic and the tragic lie inseparably close, like light and shadow.
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To find yourself, think for yourself.
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I am a citizen, not of Athens, or Greece, but of the world.
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He is a man of courage who does not run away, but remains at his post and fights against the…
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Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.
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The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
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The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the…
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Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune nor too scornful in…
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Only the extremely ignorant or the extremely intelligent can resist change.
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Whoever would have his body supple, easy and healthful should learn to dance.
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Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers.
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More Know Nothing Quotes
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In baseball, you don't know nothing.
— Yogi Berra
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I know nothing about Christianity, nothing about football, and I'm not a Republican.
— Sandra Bullock
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I know nothing about love and romance, so I prefer to stick to just comedy.
— Sandra Bullock
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What is fame? The advantage of being known by people of whom you yourself know nothing, and for whom you…
— Lord Byron
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How horrible, fantastic, incredible, it is that we should be digging trenches and trying on gas-masks here because of a…
— Neville Chamberlain
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People who make history know nothing about history. You can see that in the sort of history they make.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Of the love or hatred God has for the English, I know nothing, but I do know that they will…
— Joan of Arc
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If I belittle those whom I am called to serve, talk of their weak points in contrast perhaps with what…
— Amy Carmichael
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When an answer I did not expect comes to a prayer which I believed I truly meant, I shrink back…
— Amy Carmichael
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Meditation is silence. If you realize that you really know nothing, then you will be truly meditating. Such truthfulness is…
— Yogaswami
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I try to learn as much as I can because I know nothing compared to what I need to know.
— Muhammad Ali
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A fig for partridges and quails, ye dainties I know nothing of ye; But on the highest mount in Wales…
— Jonathan Swift
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