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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...more

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I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think

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To fear death, gentlemen, is no other than to think oneself wise when one is not, to think one knows what one does not know. No one knows whether deat...more

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I only know that I know nothing

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As for me all I know is that I know nothing.

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I went to interview a man with a high reputation for wisdom, because I felt that here if anywhere I should succeed in disproving the oracle and pointi...more

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...[R]eal wisdom is the property of God, and... human wisdom has little or no value.

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...[T]hese people... are my dangerous accusers because those who hear them suppose that anyone who inquires into such matters... theories about the he...more

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The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.