It is better to change an opinion than to persist in a wrong one.
SOCRATESEmploy your time in improving yourself by other men’s writings so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for.
More Socrates Quotes
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He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god.
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Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat.
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The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.
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Nobody is qualified to become a statesman who is entirely ignorant of the problem of wheat.
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Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.
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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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One should never do wrong in return, nor mistreat any man, no matter how one has been mistreated by him.
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If you don’t get what you want, you suffer; if you get what you don’t want, you suffer; even when you get exactly what you want, you still suffer because you can’t hold on to it forever.
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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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The greatest blessing granted to mankind come by way of madness, which is a divine gift.
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Intelligent individuals learn from every thing and every one; average people, from their experiences. The stupid already have all the answers.
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Every action has its pleasures and its price.
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To be is to do.
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Be slow to fall into friendship, but when you are in, continue firm and constant.
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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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