Socrates Quotes About Ignorance

Quotes about: Ignorance

• Most people, including ourselves, live in a world of relative ignorance. We are even comfortable with that ignorance, because it is all we know. When we first start facing truth, the process may be frightening, and many people run back to their old lives. But if you continue to seek truth, you will eventually be able to handle it better. In fact, you want more! It's true that many people around you now may think you are weird or even a danger to society, but you don't care. Once you've tasted the truth, you won't ever want to go back to being ignorant

  Socrates

  Running, Truth, Ignorance

  Socrates, Gordon Jacobs (2017). “Socrates: 100 Quotes on Life, Free Will, and Virtue”, Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

• Awareness of ignorance is the beginning of wisdom.

  Socrates

  Ignorance, Awareness

• To fear death, my friends, is only to think ourselves wise, without being wise: for it is to think that we know what we do not know. For anything that men can tell, death may be the greatest good that can happen to them: but they fear it as if they knew quite well that it was the greatest of evils. And what is this but that shameful ignorance of thinking that we know what we do not know?

  Socrates

  Death, Wise, Fear

• Admitting one's ignorance is the first step in acquiring knowledge.

  Socrates

  Ignorance, Admitting, Firsts

• Well I am certainly wiser than this man. It is only too likely that neither of us has any knowledge to boast of; but he thinks that he knows something which he does not know, whereas I am quite conscious of my ignorance. At any rate it seems that I am wiser than he is to this small extent, that I do not think that I know what I do not know.

  Socrates

  Wisdom, Ignorance, Knowledge

• There is but one evil, ignorance.

  Socrates

  Ignorance, Evil, Religion

• Whenever any one informs us that he has found a man who knows all the arts, and all things else that anybody knows, and every single thing with a higher degree of accuracy than any other man - whoever tells us this, I think that we can only imagine him to be a simple creature who is likely to have been deceived by some wizard or actor whom he met, and whom he thought all-knowing, because he himself was unable to analyse the nature of knowledge and ignorance and imitation.

  Socrates

  Art, Ignorance, Simple

  Source: www.howtodrawjourney.com

• I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.

  Socrates

  Motivational, Ignorance, Thinking

  Quoted in Diogenes Laertius, Lives of the Philosophers See Milton 45

• He said that there was one only good, namely, knowledge; and one only evil, namely, ignorance.

  Socrates

  Ignorance, Evil, Wickedness

• There are two kinds of disease of the soul, vice and ignorance.

  Socrates

  Ignorance, Two, Soul

• To Believe without evidence and demonstration is an act of ignorance and folly

  Socrates

  Believe, Ignorance, Demonstration

• The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary.There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance.

  Socrates

  Success, Ignorance, Evil

• I know nothing but the certainty of my own ignorance.

  Socrates

  Ignorance, Certainty, My Own

• The bad one is that way because of the ignorance, therefore he can be healed with wisdom.

  Socrates

  Ignorance, Way, Healed

• The true Wisdom is in recognizing our own ignorance.

  Socrates

  Ignorance, Recognizing, True Wisdom

• I must first know myself, as the Delphian inscription says; to be curious about that which is not my concern, while I am still in ignorance of my own self, would be ridiculous. And therefore I bid farewell to all this; the common opinion is enough for me. For, as I was saying, I want to know not about this, but about myself: am I a monster more complicated and swollen with passion than the serpent Typho, or a creature of a gentler and simpler sort, to whom Nature has given a diviner and lowlier destiny?

  Socrates

  Farewell, Passion, Ignorance

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