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1 Intro| detecting the pretended wisdom of mankind; and this occupation
2 Intro| hearing the pretenders to wisdom detected. If they have been
3 Intro| like so much else, e.g. the wisdom of Critias, the poem of
4 Text | myself, if he really has this wisdom, and teaches at such a moderate
5 Text | come of a certain sort of wisdom which I possess. If you
6 Text | you ask me what kind of wisdom, I reply, wisdom such as
7 Text | kind of wisdom, I reply, wisdom such as may perhaps be attained
8 Text | speaking have a superhuman wisdom which I may fail to describe,
9 Text | he will tell you about my wisdom, if I have any, and of what
10 Text | for I know that I have no wisdom, small or great. What then
11 Text | who had the reputation of wisdom, and observed him—his name
12 Text | still higher pretensions to wisdom, and my conclusion was exactly
13 Text | Then I knew that not by wisdom do poets write poetry, but
14 Text | them overshadowed their wisdom; and therefore I asked myself
15 Text | that I myself possess the wisdom which I find wanting in
16 Text | intends to show that the wisdom of men is worth little or
17 Text | Socrates, knows that his wisdom is in truth worth nothing.
18 Text | and make enquiry into the wisdom of any one, whether citizen
19 Text | truth which your superior wisdom has recognized thus early
20 Text | is indeed the pretence of wisdom, and not real wisdom, being
21 Text | of wisdom, and not real wisdom, being a pretence of knowing
22 Text | and caring so little about wisdom and truth and the greatest
23 Text | cross-examination of the pretenders to wisdom; there is amusement in it.
24 Text | and who has a name for wisdom, ought not to demean himself.
25 Text | are said to be superior in wisdom and courage, and any other
26 Text | himself, and seek virtue and wisdom before he looks to his private
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