Intelligent individuals learn from every thing and every one; average people, from their experiences. The stupid already have all the answers.
SOCRATESTo fear death, gentlemen, is no other than to think oneself wise when one is not, to think one knows what one does not know.
More Socrates Quotes
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Nobody is qualified to become a statesman who is entirely ignorant of the problem of wheat.
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The really important thing is not to live, but to live well. And to live well meant, along with more enjoyable things in life, to live according to your principles.
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Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.
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The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.
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To move the world we must move ourselves.
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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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I know you won’t believe me, but the highest form of Human Excellence is to question oneself and others.
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Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart’s desire; the other is to get it.
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The hottest love has the coldest end.
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Every action has its pleasures and its price.
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Beware the barrenness of a busy life.
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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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The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise.
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He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.
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Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others.
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