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
ashamed care caring fame improvement money neither nor truth wisdom
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?
beginning definition wisdom
The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.
oracle wisdom wisest
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.
wisdom thinking pay
Why should we pay so much attention to what the majority thinks?
wisdom shadow riches
Wisdom adorneth riches and casteth a shadow over poverty.
ignorance true-wisdom recognizing
The true Wisdom is in recognizing our own ignorance.
wise wisdom dog
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.
wisdom heart judging
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.
wisdom gratitude greed
He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.
change wisdom life-and-death
The hour of departure has arrived and we go our ways; I to die, and you to live. Which is better? Only God knows.
wisdom greek oracles
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.
wisdom knowing littles
Wisdom is knowing how little we know.
knowing true-wisdom knows
Wisdom is knowing what you don't know.
wisdom people force
People learn more on their own rather than being force fed.