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Socrates Quotes

    “When I left him, I reasoned thus with myself: I am wiser than this man, for neither of us appears to know anything great and good; but he fancies he knows something, although he knows nothing; whereas I, as I do not know anything, so I do not fancy I do. In this trifling particular, then, I appear to be wiser than he, because I do not fancy I know what I do not know.”

    Socrates, via The Daily Laws (Page 373)

      “Socrates thought that stupidity was incompatible with wisdom, but he never said that ignorance was stupidity.”

      Xenophon, via A Calendar of Wisdom (Page 203)