Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.
SOCRATESBe kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.
More Socrates Quotes
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It is better to change an opinion than to persist in a wrong one.
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He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.
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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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We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.
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I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.
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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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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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One should never do wrong in return, nor mistreat any man, no matter how one has been mistreated by him.
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The greatest way to live with honour in this world is to be what we pretend to be.
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I do believe that there are gods, and in a far higher sense than that in which any of my accusers believe in them.
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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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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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In all of us, even in good men, there is a lawless wild-beast nature, which peers out in sleep.
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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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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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