Socrates
Socrates
Socrates was a classical Greekphilosopher credited as one of the founders of Western philosophy. He is an enigmatic figure known chiefly through the accounts of classical writers, especially the writings of his students Plato and Xenophon and the plays of his contemporary Aristophanes. Plato's dialogues are among the most comprehensive accounts of Socrates to survive from antiquity, though it is unclear the degree to which Socrates himself is "hidden behind his 'best disciple', Plato"...
NationalityGreek
ProfessionPhilosopher
evil ignorance
There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance
ignorance firsts acquiring-knowledge
Admitting one's ignorance is the first step in acquiring knowledge ...
ignorance true-wisdom recognizing
The true Wisdom is in recognizing our own ignorance.
ignorance certainty knows
I know nothing but the certainty of my own ignorance.
believe ignorance demonstration
To Believe without evidence and demonstration is an act of ignorance and folly
ignorance way healed
The bad one is that way because of the ignorance, therefore he can be healed with wisdom.
ignorance evil said
He said that there was one only good, namely, knowledge; and one only evil, namely, ignorance.
farewell ignorance passion
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?
ignorance humility men
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.
ignorance evil religion
There is but one evil, ignorance.
ignorance knowing-nothing facts
I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.
success ignorance evil
The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary.There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance.
ignorance two soul
There are two kinds of disease of the soul, vice and ignorance.
art ignorance simple
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.