Quotes by Socrates

Ordinary people seem not to realize that those who really apply themse >>

I am not an Athenian, nor a Greek, but a citizen of the world. >>

One thing only I know, and that is that I know nothing. >>

Quotations about Wisdom

It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be r >>

The mistakes of the fool are known to the world, but not to himself. T >>

Practical wisdom is only to be learned in the school of experience. Pr >>

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 thinks that he knows something which he does not know, whereas I am quite conscious of my ignorance. At any rate it seems that I am wiser than he is to this small extent, that I do not think that I know what I do not know.

Socrates