I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think.
SOCRATESIf you want to be a good saddler, saddle the worst horse; for if you can tame one, you can tame all.
More Socrates Quotes
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Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.
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To be is to do.
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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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All men’s souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine.
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The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
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If you don’t get what you want, you suffer; if you get what you don’t want, you suffer; even when you get exactly what you want, you still suffer because you can’t hold on to it forever.
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Let him who would move the world first move himself.
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The greatest blessing granted to mankind come by way of madness, which is a divine gift.
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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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I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.
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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.
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I know you won’t believe me, but the highest form of Human Excellence is to question oneself and others.
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Be slow to fall into friendship, but when you are in, continue firm and constant.
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Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.
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Your mind is your predicament. It wants to be free of change. Free of pain, free of the obligations of life and death. But change is law and no amount of pretending will alter that reality.
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