Intelligent individuals learn from every thing and every one; average people, from their experiences. The stupid already have all the answers.
SOCRATESI 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.
More Socrates Quotes
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The highest realms of thought are impossible to reach without first attaining an understanding of compassion.
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It is a disgrace to grow old through sheer carelessness before seeing what manner of man you may become by developing your bodily strength and beauty to their highest limit.
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Nobody is qualified to become a statesman who is entirely ignorant of the problem of wheat.
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Let him who would move the world first move himself.
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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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Through your rags I see your vanity.
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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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Is it true; is it kind, or is it necessary?
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The easiest and noblest way is not to be crushing others, but to be improving yourselves.
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If you want to be a good saddler, saddle the worst horse; for if you can tame one, you can tame all.
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It is better to change an opinion than to persist in a wrong one.
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Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.
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Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others.
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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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To move the world we must move ourselves.
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