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“I know that I am intelligent, because
I know that I know nothing.”
- Socrates |
“Life contains but two tragedies.
One is not to get your heart’s desire; the other is to get it.”
- Socrates |
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“There is only one good, knowledge,
and one evil, ignorance.”
- Socrates |
“The only true wisdom is in knowing
you know nothing.”
- Socrates |
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“I cannot teach anybody anything. I
can only make them think”
- Socrates |
“To find yourself, think for
yourself.”
- Socrates |
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“Sometimes you put walls up not to
keep people out, but to see who cares enough to break them down.”
- Socrates |
“The hour of departure has arrived,
and we go our separate ways, I to die, and you to live. Which of these two is
better only God knows.”
- Socrates |
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“The unexamined life is not worth
living.”
- Socrates |
“The secret of change is to focus all
of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new.”
- Socrates |
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“Let him who would move the world
first move himself.”
- Socrates |
“understanding a question is half an
answer”
- Socrates |
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“Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.”
- Socrates |
“The hottest love has the coldest
end.”
- Socrates |
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“Every action has its pleasures and
its price.”
- Socrates |
“Thou should not eat to live; not
live to eat.”
- Socrates |
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“How can you wonder your travels do
you no good, when you carry yourself around with you?”
- Socrates |
“To express oneself badly is not
only faulty as far as the language goes, but does some harm to the
soul.”
- Socrates |
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“True wisdom comes to each of us
when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world
around us.”
- Socrates |
“Give me beauty in the inward soul;
may the outward and the inward man be at one.”
- Socrates |
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“The way to gain a good reputation is
to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.”
- Socrates |
“The mind is everything; what you
think you become”
- Socrates |
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“Do not do to others what angers you
if done to you by others.”
- Socrates |
“He is not only idle who does
nothing, but he is idle who might be better employed.”
- Socrates |
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“We cannot live better than in seeking
to become better.”
- Socrates |
“I know you won't believe me, but
the highest form of Human Excellence is to question oneself and others.”
- Socrates |
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“He is richest who is content with
the least, for content is the wealth of nature.”
- Socrates |
“As to marriage or celibacy, let a
man take which course he will, he will be sure to repent.”
- Socrates |
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“Think not those faithful who praise
all thy words and actions; but those who kindly reprove thy faults.”
- Socrates |
“He who is not contended with what he
has, would not be contended with what he would like to have.”
- Socrates |
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“The secret to happiness, you see, is
not in gaining more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less...”
- Socrates |
“It is better to change an opinion
than to persist in a wrong one.”
- Socrates |
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“Nobody is qualified to become a
statesman who is entirely ignorant of the problem of wheat.”
- Socrates |
“Remember that there is nothing
stable in human affairs; therefore avoid undue elation in prosperity, or
undue depression in adversity.”
- Socrates |
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“To move the world, we must first
move ourselves.”
- Socrates |
“He is rich who is content with the
least; for contentment is the wealth of nature.”
- Socrates |
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“The Only Thing I Know For Sure Is
That I Know Nothing At All, For Sure”
- Socrates |
“The definition of terms is the
beginning of wisdom.”
- Socrates |
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“My plainness of speech makes them
hate me, and what is their hatred but a
proof that I am speaking the truth.” - Socrates |
“And in knowing that you know
nothing makes you the smartest of all.”
- Socrates |
