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
men knowing claims
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.
knowing knows
Wisdom is knowing when you don't know
men knowing world
Nobody knows anything, but I, knowing nothing, am the smartest man in the world.
learning knowing may
Whatever authority I may have rests solely on knowing how little I know.
knowledge knowing true-knowledge
True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing. And in knowing that you know nothing, that makes you the smartest of all.
ignorance knowing-nothing facts
I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.
knowing-nothing ancient-greek knows
I know one thing, that I know nothing.
real knowing evil
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.
wisdom knowing littles
Wisdom is knowing how little we know.
knowing-nothing true-knowledge knows
To know, is to know that you know nothing.
knowing true-wisdom knows
Wisdom is knowing what you don't know.
knowing true-knowledge self-awareness
True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.
men knowing-nothing fancy
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.
helping-others knowing-nothing done
Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others.