Socrates Ignorance Quotations

I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.

There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance

Most people, including ourselves, live in a world of relative ignorance. We are even comfortable with that ignorance, because it is all we know. When we first start facing truth, the process may be frightening, and many people run back to their old lives. But if you continue to seek truth, you will eventually be able to handle it better. In fact, you want more! It's true that many people around you now may think you are weird or even a danger to society, but you don't care. Once you've tasted the truth, you won't ever want to go back to being ignorant

Awareness of ignorance is the beginning of wisdom.

Whenever any one informs us that he has found a man who knows all the arts, and all things else that anybody knows, and every single thing with a higher degree of accuracy than any other man - whoever tells us this, I think that we can only imagine him to be a simple creature who is likely to have been deceived by some wizard or actor whom he met, and whom he thought all-knowing, because he himself was unable to analyse the nature of knowledge and ignorance and imitation.

There are two kinds of disease of the soul, vice and ignorance.

The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary.There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance.

There is but one evil, ignorance.

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.

I must first know myself, as the Delphian inscription says; to be curious about that which is not my concern, while I am still in ignorance of my own self, would be ridiculous. And therefore I bid farewell to all this; the common opinion is enough for me. For, as I was saying, I want to know not about this, but about myself: am I a monster more complicated and swollen with passion than the serpent Typho, or a creature of a gentler and simpler sort, to whom Nature has given a diviner and lowlier destiny?

He said that there was one only good, namely, knowledge; and one only evil, namely, ignorance.

The bad one is that way because of the ignorance, therefore he can be healed with wisdom.

To Believe without evidence and demonstration is an act of ignorance and folly

I know nothing but the certainty of my own ignorance.

The true Wisdom is in recognizing our own ignorance.

Admitting one's ignorance is the first step in acquiring knowledge ...