• Socrates is one of the most well-known Greek philosophers in history whose thirst for knowledge changed the course of philosophy forever. Here are some of his best quotes :

8 Enlightenment Quotes From Socrates

" To find yourself, think for yourself. "

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

" ﻿Strong minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, weak minds discuss people.

" The unexamined life is not worth living."

" We cannot live better than in seeking to become better. "

" Be as you wish to seem. "

" Our prayers should be for blessings in general, for God knows best what is good for us. "

" By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you’ll become happy; if you get a bad one, you’ll become a philosopher. "

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 “I examined the poets, and I look on them as people whose talent overawes both themselves and others, people who present themselves as wise men and are taken as such, when they are nothing of the sort. From poets, I moved to artists. No one was more ignorant about the arts than I; no one was more convinced that artists possessed really beautiful secrets. However, I noticed that their condition was no better than that of the poets and that both of them have the same misconceptions. Because the most skillful among them excel in their specialty, they look upon themselves as the wisest of men. In my eyes, this presumption completely tarnished their knowledge. As a result, putting myself in the place of the oracle and asking myself what I would prefer to be — what I was or what they were, to know what they have learned or to know that I know nothing — I replied to myself and to the god: I wish to remain who I am. We do not know — neither the sophists, nor the orators, nor the artists, nor I— what the True, the Good, and the Beautiful are. But there is this difference between us: although these people know nothing, they all believe they know something; whereas, I, if I know nothing, at least have no doubts about it. As a result, all this superiority in wisdom which the oracle has attributed to me reduces itself to the single point that I am strongly convinced that I am ignorant of what I do not know.”
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One of the things that helped me on my self-improvement journey 😃

416 quotes from Socrates: 'The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.', 'The unexamined life is not worth living.', and 'I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think'

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8 Enlightenment Quotes From Socrates

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