Author: Socrates

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

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

- Socrates

Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.

Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.

- Socrates

I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.

I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.

- Socrates

Where there is reverence there is fear, but there is not reverence everywhere that there is fear, because fear presumably has a wider extension than reverence.

Where there is reverence there is fear, but there is not reverence everywhere that there is fear, because fear presumably has a wider extension than reverence.

- Socrates

To know, is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge.

To know, is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge.

- Socrates

Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.

Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.

- Socrates

Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.

Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.

- Socrates

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.

- Socrates

Wisdom begins in wonder.

Wisdom begins in wonder.

- Socrates

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