I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.
SOCRATESI know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.
More Socrates Quotes
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Are you not ashamed of caring so much for the making of money and for fame and prestige, when you neither think nor care about wisdom and truth and the improvement of your soul?
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Understanding a question is half an answer.
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The unexamined life is not worth living.
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It is not difficult to avoid death, gentlemen of the jury; it is much more difficult to avoid wickedness, for it runs faster than death.
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The highest realms of thought are impossible to reach without first attaining an understanding of compassion.
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A system of morality which is based on relative emotional values is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception which has nothing sound in it and nothing true.
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From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate.
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I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.
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Wisdom begins in wonder.
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The easiest and noblest way is not to be crushing others, but to be improving yourselves.
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To be is to do.
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The great honor in the world is to be what we pretend to be.
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There is no solution; seek it lovingly.
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I do believe that there are gods, and in a far higher sense than that in which any of my accusers believe in them.
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Prefer knowledge to wealth, for the one is transitory, the other perpetual.
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