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Socrates (470-399 BC) was a Greek philosopher best known for the Socratic method of debate. Philosopher John M. Cooper said,
"I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance." (Goodreads.com)
"True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us." (Brainyquote.com)
"Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for." (Goodreads.com)
"Smart people learn from everything and everyone, average people from their experiences, stupid people already have all the answers." (Goodreads.com)
"The beginning of wisdom is a definition of terms." (Goodreads.com)
"Everything is plainer when spoken than when unspoken." (Goodreads.com)
"I realized that it was not by wisdom that poets write their poetry, but by a kind of nature or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets..." (Quoted in The Apology by Plato)
"Suppose that there are two sorts of existence, one seen, and the other unseen... the seen is the changing and the unseen is the unchanging... and further, is not one part of us body and the rest of us soul?" (Quoted in Phaedo by Plato)
Socrates (470-399 BC) was a Greek philosopher best known for the Socratic method of debate. Philosopher John M. Cooper said,
"Socrates was a totally new kind of Greek philosopher. He denied that he had discovered some new wisdom, indeed that he possessed any wisdom at all, and he refused to hand anything down to anyone as his personal 'truth', his claim to fame."Philosopher Bertrand Russell said,
"Socrates was the chief saint of the Stoics throughout their history; his attitude at the time of his trial, his refusal to escape, his calmness in the face of death, and his contention that the perpetrator of injustice injures himself more than his victim, all fitted in perfectly with Stoic teaching." (A History of Western Philosophy, 1945)The rest of this post is some quotes from Socrates.
Skepticism
"I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance." (Goodreads.com)
"True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us." (Brainyquote.com)
Education
"Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for." (Goodreads.com)
"Smart people learn from everything and everyone, average people from their experiences, stupid people already have all the answers." (Goodreads.com)
Language
"The beginning of wisdom is a definition of terms." (Goodreads.com)
"Everything is plainer when spoken than when unspoken." (Goodreads.com)
"I realized that it was not by wisdom that poets write their poetry, but by a kind of nature or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets..." (Quoted in The Apology by Plato)
Metaphysics
"Suppose that there are two sorts of existence, one seen, and the other unseen... the seen is the changing and the unseen is the unchanging... and further, is not one part of us body and the rest of us soul?" (Quoted in Phaedo by Plato)
