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Socrates Quotes

"The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing"

"One thing only I know, and that is that I know nothing"

"I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think"

"It is easier to write about Socrates than about a young woman or a cook."

"An unexamined life is not worth living."

"We can know only that we know nothing And that is the highest degree of human wisdom"

"I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion"

"The unexamined life is not worth living"

"I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing."

"Death may be the greatest of all human blessings"

"The paradox seems to be, as Socrates demonstrated long ago, that the truly free individual is free only to the extent of his own self-mastery. While those who will not govern themselves are condemned to find masters to govern over them"

"Knowledge is true opinion"

"Beware the barrenness of a busy life"

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

"To know what you know and what you do not know, that is true knowledge."

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