Quote #87
True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.
More from Socrates
- True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.
- Upon the score of fore-knowledge and divining I am infinitely inferior to the swans. When they perceive approaching death they sing more me…
- To need nothing is divine, and the less a man needs the nearer does he approach to divinity.
- Virtue does not come from wealth, but health, and every other good thing which men have comes from virtue.
- To find yourself, think for yourself.
- We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is a habit.
- Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat.
- What a lot of things there are a man can do without.