Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.
SOCRATESMy plainness of speech makes them hate me, and what is their hatred but a proof that I am speaking the truth.
More Socrates Quotes
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I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.
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Be as you wish to seem.
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The highest realms of thought are impossible to reach without first attaining an understanding of compassion.
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I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.
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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.
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To express oneself badly is not only faulty as far as the language goes, but does some harm to the soul.
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Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.
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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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It is not difficult to avoid death, gentlemen of the jury; it is much more difficult to avoid wickedness, for it runs faster than death.
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Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.
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If all our misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be content to take their own and depart.
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When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser.
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Mankind is made of two kinds of people: wise people who know they’re fools, and fools who think they are wise.
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It is better to change an opinion than to persist in a wrong one.
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God would seem to indicate to us and not allow us to doubt that these beautiful poems are not human, or the work of man, but divine and the work of God; and that the poets are only the interpreters of the Gods.
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