Quotes About Wisdom

Then I knew that not by wisdom do poets write poetry, but by a sort of genius and inspiration; they are like diviners or soothsayers who also say many fine things, but do not understand the meaning of them.

Never mind the manner, which may or may not be good; but think only of the truth of my words, and give heed to that: let the speaker speak truly and the judge decide justly. (Socrates)

I would not swear that my argument is right down to the last word, but I would fight to the last breath, both in word and deed, that we will be better men – brave instead of lazy – if we will believe we must search for the things we do not know; if we will refuse to believe it is not possible to find out what we do not know and that there is no point in looking.

Ali,srecnice moj,mozda sam ja nista,a ti to ne primecujes.

Although I do not suppose that either of us knows anything really beautiful and good, I am better off than he is,--for he knows nothing, and thinks that he knows; I neither know nor think that I know. (Socrates)

It is easy to forgive children who are afraid of the dark but the real tragedy of life is men who are afraid of the light.

thither I went, and sought to persuade every man among you that he must look to himself, and seek virtue and wisdom before he looks to his private interests, and look to the state before he looks to the interests of the state; and that this should be the order which he observes in all his actions.

Evils, Theodorus, can never pass away; for there must always remain something which is antagonistic to good. Having no place among the gods in heaven, of necessity they hover around the mortal nature, and this earthly sphere. Wherefore we ought to fly away from earth to heaven as quickly as we can; and to fly away is to become like God, as far as this is possible; and to become like him, is to become holy, just, and wise.

and we must endeavour to persuade those who are to be the principal men of our State to go and learn arithmetic, not as amateurs, but they must carry on the study until they see the nature of numbers with the mind only;

Porque temer la muerte, atenienses, no es otra cosa que creerse sabio sin serlo, y creer conocer lo que no se sabe. En efecto, nadie conoce la muerte, ni sabe si es el mayor de los bienes para el hombre. Sin embargo, se la teme, como si se 68 supiese con certeza que es el mayor de todos los males.

Now tell me best of friends lmaoooo

me complace conversar con las personas de mucha edad, pues me parece que es conveniente aprender de ellos, ya que han recorrido un camino que también nosotros deberemos recorrer de igual modo, de qué condición es: áspero y difícil o fácil y cómodo.

quiénes son entonces -preguntó- los que llamas filósofos verdaderos? -Los que gustan de contemplar la verdad -respondí.

Then the good and wise judge whom we are seeking is not this man, but the other; for vice cannot know virtue too, but a virtuous nature, educated by time, will acquire a knowledge both of virtue and vice: the virtuous, and not the vicious, man has wisdom—in my opinion.

He is divine -- but then I call all philosophers that.

those who make philosophy the business of their lives, generally turn out rogues if they are bad men, and fools if they are good.

Un buen consejo viene de la ciencia y no de las riquezas.

Pues bien -continué-, no debemos buscar el juez bueno y sabio en esa persona, sino en la anteriormente descrita. Pues la maldad jamás podrá conocerse al mis­mo tiempo a sí misma y a la virtud, y, en cambio, la vir­tud innata llegará, con los años y auxiliada por la educa­ción, a adquirir un conocimiento simultáneo de sí misma y de la maldad. En mi opinión será, pues, sabio el hombre virtuoso, pero no el malo.

A los amantes les llega el arrepentimiento del bien que hayan podido hacer, tan pronto como se les aplaca su deseo.

Courage, for example, when not based on forethought, is mere recklessness; when a man is thoughtlessly confident, he gets hurt; but when he is mindful of what he does, things go well.

SOCRATES: But I think that finally he would be in the condition to look at the sun itself, not just at its reflection whether in water or wherever else it might appear, but at the sun itself, as it is in and of itself and in the place proper to it and to contemplate of what sort it is.

longest of his works

Sinceramente? Èpico.

The life which is not examined is not worth living.