Socrates Wisdom 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.

The Delphic oracle said I was the wisest of all the Greeks. It is because I alone, of all the Greeks, know that I know nothing.

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?

The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.

People learn more on their own rather than being force fed.

Wisdom is knowing what you don't know.

Wisdom is knowing how little we know.

The Delphic Oracle said that I was the wisest of all the Greeks. It is because I alone of all the Greeks know that I know nothing.

The hour of departure has arrived and we go our ways; I to die, and you to live. Which is better? Only God knows.

He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.

We are in fact convinced that if we are ever to have pure knowledge of anything, we must get rid of the body and contemplate things by themselves with the soul by itself. It seems, to judge from the argument, that the wisdom which we desire and upon which we profess to have set our hearts will be attainable only when we are dead and not in our lifetime.

Antiphon, as another man gets pleasure from a good horse, or a dog, or a bird, I get even more pleasure from good friends. And if I have something good, I teach it to them, and I introduce them to others who will be useful to them with respect to virtue. And together with my friends I go through the treasures of wise men of old which they left behind written in books, and we peruse them. If we see something good, we pick it out and hold it to be a great profit, if we are able to prove useful to one another.

The true Wisdom is in recognizing our own ignorance.

Wisdom adorneth riches and casteth a shadow over poverty.

Why should we pay so much attention to what the majority thinks?