Quotes About Knowledge

I soon realized that poets do not compose their poems with knowledge, but by some inborn talent and by inspiration, like seers and prophets who also say many fine things without any understanding of what they say.

Mankind is made of two kinds of people: wise people who know they're fools, and fools who think they are wise.

Wisdom is knowing you know nothing

Nobody is qualified to become a statesman who is entirely ignorant of the problem of wheat.

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

To fear death, gentlemen, is no other then to think oneself wise when one is not, to think one knows what one does not know.

What I do not know, I do not think I know.

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

As for me, all I know is that I know nothing.

Conocerse a uno mismo, ese es el principio fundamental de la verdadera sabiduría Humana.

And in knowing that you know nothing makes you the smartest of all.

I know I'm intelligent because I know that I know nothing.

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

There is one way, then, in which a man can be free from all anxiety about the fate of his soul - if in life he has abandoned bodily pleasures and adornments, as foreign to his purpose and likely to do more harm than good, and has devoted himself to the pleasures of acquiring knowledge, and so by decking his soul not with a borrowed beauty but with its own - with self-control, and goodness, and courage, and liberality, and truth - has fitted himself to await his journey in the next world.

Man's greatest privilege is the discussion of virtue" Socrates in The Apology.

wisdom begins in wonder

Life without enquiry is not worth living.

I neither know nor think that I know

I'm wiser than that person. For it's likely that neither of us knows anything fine and good, but he thinks he knows something he doesn't know, whereas I, since I don't in fact know, don't think that I do either. At any rate, it seems that I'm wiser than he in just this one small way: that what I don't know, I don't think I know.

The definition of terms is the beginning of wisdom.

Knowledge will make you be free.

W]hy should we pay so much attention to what 'most people' think? The really reasonable people, who have more claim to be considered, will believe that the facts are exactly as they are.

He who knows not and knows not that he knows not is an incorrigible fool.

So I withdrew and thought to myself: 'I am wiser than this man; it is likely that neither of us knows anything worthwhile, but he thinks he knows something when he does not, whereas when I do not know, neither do I think I know; so I am likely to be wiser than he to this small extent, that I do not think I know what I do not know.