Quote of Socrates - I decided that it was not...

Biography - Socrates:

*Approximate years of birth and death.
Born: -469 - Died: -399
Period:
5th century BC
Place of birth: Greece
Greece

Quote

I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean.”
Socrates

Quotes about wisdom:

The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.”
Michel de Montaigne - Essays

wisdom

Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.”
Epicurus

Never does nature say one thing and wisdom another.”
Decimus Iunius Iuvenalis - Satires

The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.”
Isaac Asimov

Silence is often the truest wisdom.”
Pindar

Human wisdom consists in a knowledge of the order in which it is profitable to know things;”
Leo Tolstoy

All about wisdom...

Quotes for: Instinct:

In art as in love, instinct is enough.”
Anatole France

The ignoble nature is distinguished by the fact that it keeps its advantage steadily in view, and that this thought of the end and advantage is even stronger than its strongest impulse.”
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche - The Joyful Science

Instinct

Instinct perfected is a faculty of using and even constructing organized instruments; intelligence perfected is the faculty of making and using unorganized instruments.”
Henri Bergson

For centuries the death penalty, often accompanied by barbarous refinements, has been trying to hold crime in check yet crime persists. Why? Because the instincts that are warring in man are not, as the law claims, constant forces in a state of equilibrium.”
Albert Camus

Art is not the application of a canon of beauty but what the instinct and the brain can conceive beyond any canon. When we love a woman we don't start measuring her limbs.”
Pablo Picasso

Collective fear stimulates herd instinct, and tends to produce ferocity toward those who are not regarded as members of the herd.”
Bertrand Russell

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Socrates also said...

All I know is that I know nothing.”
Socrates

to know

Beware the barrenness of a busy life.”
Socrates

life

He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.”
Socrates

The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.”
Socrates

Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.”
Socrates

time

Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.”
Socrates

beauty

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