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#1

“The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.”
― Socrates

tags: knowledge, wisdom

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“I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.”
― Plato, The Republic

tags: apology, knowing, nothing, paradox, plato, republic, socrates, socratic, wisdome

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#3

“Attack the evil that is within yourself, rather than attacking the evil that is in others.”
― Confucius

tags: personal-responsibility, self-assessment, self-determination

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#4

“Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

tags: integrity, morality

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#5

“No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it.”
― Albert Einstein

tags: inspirational, success, wisdom

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#6

“Genius, in truth, means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.”
― William James, The Writings of William James: A Comprehensive Edition

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#7

“Simplicity, patience, compassion.
These three are your greatest treasures.
Simple in actions and thoughts, you return to the source of being.
Patient with both friends and enemies,
you accord with the way things are.
Compassionate toward yourself,
you reconcile all beings in the world.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

tags: inspirational, life, philosophy

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#8

“The unexamined life is not worth living.”
― Socrates

tags: inspiration, truth, wisdom

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#9

“Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.”
― Confucious

tags: beauty, everything, seeing

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#10

“I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think”
― Socrates

tags: knowledge, philosophy

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#11

“There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance.”
― Socrates

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#12

“Ignorance, the root and stem of every evil.”
― Plato

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#13

“To find yourself, think for yourself.”
― Socrates

tags: independence, self-reliance

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#14

“Knowing others is intelligence;
knowing yourself is true wisdom.
Mastering others is strength;
mastering yourself is true power.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

tags: wisdom

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#15

“The truth is not always beautiful, nor beautiful words the truth.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

tags: apothegm, beauty, truth

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#16

“When you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete, everyone will respect you.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

tags: ataraxy, be-yourself, integrity, self-reliance, self-respect

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#17

“Respect yourself and others will respect you.”
― Confucius, The Sayings of Confucius

tags: respect, self-respect

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#18

“You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

tags: ataraxy, inner-strength, inspiration, self-control, strength

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#19

“The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

tags: happiness

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#20

“Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.”
― Marcus Aurelius , Meditations

tags: truth

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#21

“Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together,but do so with all your heart.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

tags: fate, love, people

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#22

“It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

tags: death, fear, inspirational

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#23

“Everyone takes the limits of his own vision for the limits of the world.”
― Arthur Schopenhauer

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#24

“It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.”
― Albert Einstein

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#25

“Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.”
― Lily Tomlin

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#26

“Why are you unhappy?
Because 99.9 percent of everything you think, and of everything you do, is for yourself—and there isn’t one.”
― Wei Wu Wei

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#27

“Freedom of speech and freedom of action are meaningless without freedom to think. And there is no freedom of thought without doubt.”
― Bergen Evans

tags: politics-observation

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#28

“What really raises one's indignation against suffering is not suffering intrinsically, but the senselessness of suffering”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

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#29

“Evil resides in the very gaze which perceives Evil all around itself.”
― Friedrich Hegel

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#30

“Through our eyes, the universe is perceiving itself. Through our ears, the universe is listening to its harmonies. We are the witnesses through which the universe becomes conscious of its glory, of its magnificence.”
― Alan Wilson Watts

tags: harmony, self, universe

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