"When I began to talk with him, I could not help thinking that he was not

[flordehinojos]

really wise, although he was thought wise by many, and still wiser by himself; and thereupon i tried to explain t him that he thought himself wise, but was not really wise; and the consequence was that he hated me, and his enmity was shared by several who were present and heard me..."

SOCRATES



how illustrative of george w. bush and his pocket republicans in the congress, the corporations, the media, and the republican public at large.

[AndyTiedye]

1. Surely It Is Not Wise To Tell Someone THEY Are Not Wise

Even if it is true, all you will do is piss them off.

[Richard Steele]

2. Only a WISE person is open to the idea that they are unwise.

This is the very foundation of WISDOM.

[flordehinojos]

5. ...

;-)

[Steve A Play]

6. Nemo mortalium omnibus horis sapet

No man is at all hours wise

[Hissyspit]

7. The more you know, the more you know how much you don't know.

[Richard Steele]

9. "True Knowledge" begins when you UNDERSTAND that you know NOTHING.

And once you KNOW that,
you will see TRUTH everywhere,
no matter how hard you try to avoid it.

"Lift a stone, and you shall behold it;
Split a log, and it will be there".

[flordehinojos]

13. ...

:)

[flordehinojos]

11. and for those who truly know, they really know that they don't know!

:) and i know that i really fell in love with socrates when i was 12 years old--ages ago.

[prescole]

22. Confucius say, "To know that you know what you know, and that you do not

know what you do not know, that is true wisdom."

But I'm not sure anybody can punctuate that sentence correctly.

[flordehinojos]

12. involuntary repetition of post in reply to Hissyspit. sorry about

duplication.

[greiner3]

17. Which is why b*** thinks he knows everything;

Another scary thought coming from the Capital!

[flordehinojos]

3. it seems socrates, who thought of himself as a sort of midwife for truth,

didn't think so. he, of course, was sentenced to death and made to drink the cup of hemlock.

in my mind there has always a paralell between him and Jesus Christ.

His words still stand today and they are so an up to the minute thing in this current political climate...they describe GWB and his reign of terror seeding, intimidation, and ignorance growing so to a tee!

[xchrom]

10. without greek philosophy{i.e. socrates} you cannot have

christianity -- the two go hand in hand.

[flordehinojos]

15. i often wondered if Socrates, whose lifetime was about 300 years BC (i

believe--but feel free to correct me if i am wrong),was a precursor to the soon to come Christ.

Somehow you seem to confirm that....Now the question would be, was that by Divine Design, or just merely coincidental?

[prescole]

21. 469BC to 399BC, roughly (I'm wise enough to know I'm probably

off by a few years.)

[hopeisaplace]

4. B* reasoning for needing signed documentation stating

your allegiance to the republican party before you enter his speaking "events"..


Sign here ____________
see Socrates

[Hissyspit]

8. Socrates met Dr. Phil? n/t

[ComerPerro]

14. LOL!

[flordehinojos]

16. isn't it more like Dr. Phil seems not to have met Socrates?

(and i love your cowboy drawing of dubya and his wooden horse--too bad it can't throw him off)!

[AndyTiedye]

19. That Hobby Horse Throws Him Off Quite Regularly

(and i love your cowboy drawing of dubya and his wooden horse--too bad it can't throw him off)!

It does! How do you think he gets all those bruises on his face?

[flordehinojos]

20. thank you for the smile ...

can the wooden horse ride him out of the white house and off into sunsent? Yippe Yaeeeh Yippe Yaoooh
:)

[Buns_of_Fire]

18. "Those of you who think you know everything

are annoying to those of us who do."

-- from an old poster I used to hang in my office, before my job got outsourced to Bangalore and I didn't have an office to hang it in anymore. :shrug: