To find yourself, think for yourself.
SOCRATESIntelligent individuals learn from every thing and every one; average people, from their experiences. The stupid already have all the answers.
More Socrates Quotes
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The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.
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True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.
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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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Beware the barrenness of a busy life.
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Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.
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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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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 great honor in the world is to be what we pretend to be.
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Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.
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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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Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.
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To be is to do.
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My plainness of speech makes them hate me, and what is their hatred but a proof that I am speaking the truth.
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Wisdom begins in wonder.
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