Quote #21
I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.
More from Socrates
- Bad men live that they may eat and drink, whereas good men eat and drink that they may live.
- Often when looking at a mass of things for sale, he would say to himself, 'How many things I have no need of!'
- I am not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world. (Note: This seems to Contradict much of what is said by Socrates in Crito.)
- Having the fewest wants, I am nearest to the gods.
- Really, Ischomachus, I am disposed to ask: 'Does teaching consist in putting questions?' Indeed, the secret of your system has just this in…
- There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance.
- If I am to live longer, perhaps I must live out my old age, seeing and hearing less, understanding worse, coming to learn with more difficu…
- All men's souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine.