Quotes About Knowledge

True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing. And in knowing that you know nothing, that makes you the smartest of all.

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.

There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance.

Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.

Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for.

The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.

Prefer knowledge to wealth, for the one is transitory, the other perpetual.

understanding a question is half an answer

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

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

My friend...care for your psyche...know thyself, for once we know ourselves, we may learn how to care for ourselves" -Socrates

The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.

I only know that I know nothing

All I know is that I do not know anything

To know thyself is the beginning of wisdom.

The only thing I know is that I know nothing, and i am no quite sure that i know that.

Intelligent individuals learn from every thing and every one; average people, from their experiences. The stupid already have all the answers.

When you want wisdom and insight as badly as you want to breathe, it is then you shall have it.

Well, although I do not suppose that either of us know anything really beautiful & good, I am better off than he is- for he knows nothing & thinks that he knows; I neither know nor think that I know.

The ancient 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 more I know, the more I realize I know nothing.

Smart people learn from everything and everyone, average people from their experiences, stupid people already have all the answers.

I desire only to know the truth, and to live as well as I can... And, to the utmost of my power, I exhort all other men to do the same... I exhort you also to take part in the great combat, which is the combat of life, and greater than every other earthly conflict.

As for me, all I know is that I know nothing, for when I don't know what justice is, I'll hardly know whether it is a kind of virtue or not, or whether a person who has it is happy or unhappy.