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The wisest of you men is he who has realized, like Socrates, that in respect of wisdom he is really worthless.

Plato

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Plato
Greek - Philosopher
427 BC - 347 BC

That man is wisest who, like Socrates, realizes that his wisdom is worthless

Plato

He, O men, is the wisest, who, like Socrates, knows that his wisdom is in truth worth nothing.

Plato

We should realize that, if [Socrates] demanded that the wisest men should rule, he clearly stressed that he did not mean the learned men; in fact, he was skeptical of all professional learnedness, whether it was that of the philosophers or of the learned men of his own generation, the Sophists. The wisdom he meant was of a different kind. It was simply the realization: how little do I know! Those who did not know this, he taught, knew nothing at all. This is the true scientific spirit.

Karl Popper

Socrates... Whom well inspir'd the oracle pronounc'd Wisest of men.

John Milton

Regarding life, the wisest men of all ages have judged alike: it is worthless.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Of all parts of wisdom, the practice is the best. Socrates was esteemed the wisest man of his time because he turned his acquired knowledge into morality, and aimed at goodness more than greatness.

John Tillotson

We forget that Socrates was famed for wisdom not because he was omniscient but because he realized at the age of seventy that he still knew nothing.

Robert Wilson Lynd

Passion often makes fools of the wisest men and gives the silliest wisdom.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

It must be granted that in every syllogism, considered as an argument to prove the conclusion, there is a petitio principii. When we say, All men are mortal Socrates is a man therefore Socrates is mortal; it is unanswerably urged by the adversaries of the syllogistic theory, that the proposition, Socrates is mortal.

John Stuart Mill

The most beautiful ape is ugly when compared to a human. The wisest human will seem like an ape when compared to a god with respect to wisdom, beauty, and everything else.

Heraclitus

If worthless men are sometimes at the head of affairs, it is, I believe, because worthless men are at the tail and the middle

John Adams

Socrates splits himself into two, so that there are two Socrates: the Socrates who knows in advance how the discussion is going to end, and the Socrates who travels the entire dialectical path along with his interlocutor.

Pierre Hadot

[n regard to Jesus believing himself inspired] This belief carried no more personal imputation than the belief of Socrates that he was under the care and admonition of a guardian demon. And how many of our wisest men still believe in the reality of these inspirations while perfectly sane on all other subjects

Thomas Jefferson

A poet, as he is the author to others of the highest wisdom, pleasure, virtue, and glory, so he ought personally to be the happiest, the best, the wisest, and the most illustrious of men.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Socrates.- If all goes well, the time will come when one will take up the memorabilia of Socrates rather than the Bible as a guide to morals and reason... The pathways of the most various philosophical modes of life lead back to him... Socrates excels the founder of Christianity in being able to be serious cheerfully and in possessing that wisdom full of roguishness that constitutes the finest state of the human soul. And he also possessed the finer intellect.

Friedrich Nietzsche

A: Socrates is a man. B: All men are mortal. C: All men are Socrates.

Woody Allen

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