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Socrates Quotes

I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean.
Socrates

Biography

Author Profession: Philosopher
Nationality: Greek
Born: 469 BC
Died: 399 BC

Links

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Select Socrates Quotations

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
Socrates

I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.
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Worthless people live only to eat and drink; people of worth eat and drink only to live.
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Beauty is the bait which with delight allures man to enlarge his kind.
Socrates

True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.
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Wisdom begins in wonder.
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He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.
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Definitions

Decided, Deliver, Enabled, Find, Inspiration, Instinct, Kind, Knowing, Least, Mean, Poetry, Sublime, Such, Their, Wisdom, Without, Write