Sometimes you put walls up not to keep people out, but to see who cares enough to break them down.
SOCRATESWonder is the beginning of wisdom.
More Socrates Quotes
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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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The greatest blessing granted to mankind come by way of madness, which is a divine gift.
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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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Every action has its pleasures and its price.
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A man who really fights for justice must lead a private, not a public, life if he is to survive for even a short time.
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No one knows whether death may not be the greatest of all blessings for a man, yet men fear it as if they knew it was the greatest of evils.
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From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate.
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By far the greatest and most admirable form of wisdom is that needed to plan and beautify cities and human communities.
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The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.
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To move the world we must move ourselves.
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An unconsidered life is not one worth living.
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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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The true champion of justice, if he intends to survive even for a short time, must necessarily confine himself to private life and leave politics alone.
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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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By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you’ll become happy; if you get a bad one, you’ll become a philosopher.
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