Socrates I Know Nothing Quotes

#1. I am as knowledgeable as Socrates; I know nothing.

Debasish Mridha

#2. If Socrates was alive today he would say : I know that I know everything. That's what contemporary philosophers do.

Ljupka Cvetanova

#3. If you live as if you know nothing you offer yourself the opportunity to learn everything.

Kay Whitley

#4. We have no proof that Socrates ever existed. We only know from witnesses to his life that he did. Like Jesus, he never wrote anything down. It doesn't matter to me whether he did or not exist because we have his teachings, his method of thinking, and his extreme intellectual and moral courage.

Christopher Hitchens

#5. Know thyself,' said Socrates.
Know thyself,' said Sappho, 'and make sure that the Church never finds out.

Jeanette Winterson

#6. Men, we know least, and talk most. Homer, Socrates, and Shakespere have, perhaps, contributed

Homer

#7. Socrates pointed out that we carry on as though death were the greatest of all calamities - yet, for all we know, it might be the greatest of all blessings.

Steve Hagen

#8. We all know that the un-examined life is not worth living (socrates). But if all you are doing is examining, you are not living.

Adam Leipzig

#9. Tell me, Socrates, have you got a nurse? Why do you ask such a question, I said, when you ought rather to be answering? Because she leaves you to snivel, and never wipes your nose: she has not even taught you to know the shepherd from the sheep. What makes you say that? I replied.

Plato

#10. Did you know Socrates said we love whatever we lack? Or think we lack? Socrates? If you feel stupid, you'll fall for someone brainy. If you feel ugly, you'll flip your lid for someone who's easy on the eyes.

J.R. Moehringer

#11. It is better to be a human being dissatisfied than a pig satisfied; better to be Socrates dissatisfied than a fool satisfied. And if the fool, or the pig, are of a different opinion, it is because they only know their own side of the question.29

Michael J. Sandel

#12. Socrates, one of the greatest philosophers of all time, took his whole life to get to the point where he said, As for me, all I know is that I know nothing.

Miguel Ruiz

#13. You know what I'd love to read? A Dialogue between Bron and Shevek and Socrates. Socrates would love it too. I bet he wanted people who argued. You can tell he did, you can tell that's what he loved really, at least in The Symposium.

Jo Walton

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

Plato

#15. I really do not know, Socrates, how to express what I mean. For somehow or other our arguments, on whatever ground we rest them, seem to turn round and walk away from us.

Plato

#16. all started at the Temple of Apollo In Delphi. One of his friends approached the oracle with the question: "Is anyone wiser than Socrates?" the answer was "No." Socrates was profoundly puzzled by this episode. He claimed to know

Plato

#17. Socrates said that an unexamined life is not worth living. But you know, an over-examined life can be a real crap festival, too.

Alex Bosworth