Isocrates: Quotes about wisdom

Isocrates was ancient greek rhetorician. Explore interesting quotes on wisdom.
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“The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.”

Isocrates

Variant: True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.

Wisdom , Wise

“Believe that many precepts are better than much wealth; for wealth quickly fails us, but precepts abide through all time; for wisdom alone of all possessions is imperishable. Do not hesitate to travel a long road to those who profess to offer some useful instruction; for it were a shame, when merchants cross vast seas in order to increase their store of wealth, that the young should not endure even journeys by land to improve their understanding.”

Isocrates

Verse 19; variant translation: Of all our possessions, wisdom alone is immortal.
As quoted in Dictionary of Quotations (Classical) (1906), edited by Thomas Benfield Harbottle, p. 495.
To Demonicus

Wisdom , Travel , Understanding , Time

“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.”

Isocrates
Wisdom

“True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.”

Isocrates
Understanding , World , Life , Wisdom