Socrates Knowing Quotations

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.

True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.

To know, is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge. For a man who claims to have knowledge, while actually knowing nothing, is less smarter than you, who claim to know nothing.

True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.

I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.

Knowing thyself is the height of wisdom.

To find yourself, think for yourself.

Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others.

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.

Wisdom is knowing what you don't know.

To know, is to know that you know nothing.

Wisdom is knowing how little we know.

For this fear of death is indeed the pretense of wisdom, and not real wisdom, being the appearance of knowing the unknown; since no one knows whether death, which they in their fear apprehend to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.

I know one thing, that I know nothing.

True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing. And in knowing that you know nothing, that makes you the smartest of all.

Whatever authority I may have rests solely on knowing how little I know.

Nobody knows anything, but I, knowing nothing, am the smartest man in the world.

Wisdom is knowing when you don't know