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#1

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

tags: knowledge, wisdom

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#2

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

tags: knowledge, philosophy

3966 likes

#3

“Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.”
― Socrates

tags: philosophy

2199 likes

#4

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

tags: independence, self-reliance

1723 likes

#5

“Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.”
― Socrates

tags: education, enlightenment, learning, lifelong-learning, mentorship

1597 likes

#6

“He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.”
― Socrates

tags: avarice, contentment, gluttony, greed

1336 likes

#7

“Sometimes you put walls up not to keep people out, but to see who cares enough to break them down.”
― Socrates

1156 likes

#8

“When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser.”
― Anonymous

730 likes

#9

“Let him who would move the world first move himself.”
― Socrates

tags: change, self-determination, self-development

695 likes

#10

“Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for.”
― Socrates

tags: inspirational, reading, wisdom

581 likes

#11

“The hour of departure has arrived, and we go our separate ways, I to die, and you to live. Which of these two is better only God knows.”
― Socrates

tags: death, life-and-death

526 likes

#12

“Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others.”
― Socrates

507 likes

#13

“I am not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world."

[As quoted in Plutarch's Of Banishment]”
― Socrates

tags: cosmopolitan, cosmopolitanism, world-citizenship

479 likes

#14

“Prefer knowledge to wealth, for the one is transitory, the other perpetual.”
― Socrates

456 likes

#15

“Every action has its pleasures and its price.”
― Socrates

482 likes

#16

“We cannot live better than in seeking to become better.”
― Socrates

tags: character, rectitude

435 likes

#17

“Beware the barrenness of a busy life.”
― Socrates

364 likes

#18

“The hottest love has the coldest end.”
― Socrates

303 likes

#19

“Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart’s desire; the other is to get it.”
― Socrates

tags: philosophy-of-life, psychology, relationships

334 likes

#20

“Be as you wish to seem.”
― Socrates

266 likes

#21

“The greatest way to live with honour in this world is to be what we pretend to be.”
― Socrates, Essential Thinkers - Socrates

tags: honor, honour

250 likes

#22

“True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.”
― Socrates

250 likes

#23

“He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.”
― Socrates

tags: contentment, happiness

170 likes

#24

“Those who are hardest to love need it the most.”
― Socrates

tags: love

190 likes

#25

“The mind is everything; what you think you become”
― Socrates, The Psychology of Fate & of Free Will

112 likes

#26

“Virtue does not come from wealth, but. . . wealth, and every other good thing which men have. . . comes from virtue.”
― Socrates

94 likes

#27

“There is no solution; seek it lovingly ”
― Socrates

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