True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.
SOCRATESI know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.
More Socrates Quotes
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Those who are hardest to love need it the most.
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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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The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.
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Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.
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Let him who would move the world first move himself.
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The hottest love has the coldest end.
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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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In all of us, even in good men, there is a lawless wild-beast nature, which peers out in sleep.
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As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will, he will be sure to repent.
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To find yourself, think for yourself.
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Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.
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I know you won’t believe me, but the highest form of Human Excellence is to question oneself and others.
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Living well and beautifully and justly are all one thing.
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Employ your time in improving yourself by other men’s writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.
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Wisdom begins in wonder.
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