Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.
SOCRATESEverything is plainer when spoken than when unspoken.
More Socrates Quotes
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The highest realms of thought are impossible to reach without first attaining an understanding of compassion.
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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 cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think.
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The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.
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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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Everything is plainer when spoken than when unspoken.
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Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty.
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In all of us, even in good men, there is a lawless wild-beast nature, which peers out in sleep.
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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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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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Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune, nor too sorrowful in misfortune.
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Those who are hardest to love need it the most.
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Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.
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I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.
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Understanding a question is half an answer.
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