Quote #24

There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance.

More from Socrates

  1. Having the fewest wants, I am nearest to the gods.
  2. All men's souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine.
  3. Often when looking at a mass of things for sale, he would say to himself, 'How many things I have no need of!'
  4. An education obtained with money is worse than no education at all.
  5. I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.
  6. An honest man is always a child.
  7. Bad men live that they may eat and drink, whereas good men eat and drink that they may live.
  8. As for me, all I know is that I know nothing.

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