I know you won’t believe me, but the highest form of Human Excellence is to question oneself and others.
SOCRATESThe children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise.
More Socrates Quotes
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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.
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To be is to do.
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Beware the barrenness of a busy life.
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Are you not ashamed of caring so much for the making of money and for fame and prestige, when you neither think nor care about wisdom and truth and the improvement of your soul?
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All men’s souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine.
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If you want to be a good saddler, saddle the worst horse; for if you can tame one, you can tame all.
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The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.
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Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.
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Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.
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Intelligent individuals learn from every thing and every one; average people, from their experiences. The stupid already have all the answers.
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When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser.
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Strong minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, weak minds discuss people.
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The answer I gave myself and the oracle was that it was to my advantage to be as I am.
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No man has the right to be an amateur in the matter of physical training. It is a shame for a man to grow old without seeing the beauty and strength of which his body is capable.
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The misuse of language induces evil in the soul.
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