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I shall never fear or avoid things of which I do not know.

I shall never fear or avoid things of which I do not know.

Socrates
Fear, Knowledge, Never Fear

Knowledge is our ultimate good.

Socrates
Knowledge, Ultimate
Socrates, Plato, Aristotle (1967). “Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study”

True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing. And in knowing that you know nothing, that makes you the smartest of all.

Socrates
Knowledge, Knowing, True Knowledge

You think that upon the score of fore-knowledge and divining I am infinitely inferior to the swans. When they perceive approaching death they sing more merrily than before, because of the joy they have in going to the God they serve.

Socrates
Knowledge, Thinking, Swans

We are in fact convinced that if we are ever to have pure knowledge of anything, we must get rid of the body and contemplate things by themselves with the soul by itself. It seems, to judge from the argument, that the wisdom which we desire and upon which we profess to have set our hearts will be attainable only when we are dead and not in our lifetime.

Socrates
Wisdom, Heart, Knowledge

Whatever authority I may have rests solely on knowing how little I know.

Socrates
Learning, Knowledge, Knowing

I know what I do not know.

Socrates
Knowledge, Knows
"Apology". Book by Plato, 399 BC.

Well I am certainly wiser than this man. It is only too likely that neither of us has any knowledge to boast of; but he thinks that he knows something which he does not know, whereas I am quite conscious of my ignorance. At any rate it seems that I am wiser than he is to this small extent, that I do not think that I know what I do not know.

Socrates
Wisdom, Ignorance, Knowledge

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