Understanding a question is half an answer.
SOCRATESEducation is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.
More Socrates Quotes
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I don’t know why I did it, I don’t know why I enjoyed it, and I don’t know why I’ll do it again.
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He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.
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The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise.
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We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.
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Is it true; is it kind, or is it necessary?
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Sometimes you put walls up not to keep people out, but to see who cares enough to break them down.
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One should never do wrong in return, nor mistreat any man, no matter how one has been mistreated by him.
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Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others.
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Prefer knowledge to wealth, for the one is transitory, the other perpetual.
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Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart’s desire; the other is to get it.
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The only good is knowledge and the only evil is 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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It is a disgrace to grow old through sheer carelessness before seeing what manner of man you may become by developing your bodily strength and beauty to their highest limit.
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I do believe that there are gods, and in a far higher sense than that in which any of my accusers believe in them.
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Every action has its pleasures and its price.
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