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

tags: knowledge, wisdom

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

tags: knowledge, philosophy

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#3

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

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

tags: philosophy

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#5

“Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.”
― Socrates

tags: amazement, wisdom, wonder

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#6

“Strong minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, weak minds discuss people.”
― Socrates

tags: gossip

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#7

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

tags: independence, self-reliance

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#8

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

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

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#9

“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

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#10

“Be slow to fall into friendship, but when you are in, continue firm and constant.”
― Socrates

tags: friendship

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#11

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

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#12

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

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#13

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

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#14

“understanding a question is half an answer”
― Socrates, Essential Thinkers - Socrates

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#15

“Envy is the ulcer of the soul.”
― Socrates

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#16

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

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#17

“Be nicer than necessary to everyone you meet. Everyone is fighting some kind of battle.”
― Socrates

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#18

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

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#19

“Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.”
― Plato

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#20

“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.”
― Plato

tags: darkness, dishonesty, fear, light, willful-ignorance

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#21

“The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.”
― Plato

tags: philosophy

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#22

“Do not train a child to learn by force or harshness; but direct them to it by what amuses their minds, so that you may be better able to discover with accuracy the peculiar bent of the genius of each.”
― Plato

tags: discipline, education, mentoring, philosophy

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#23

“Never discourage anyone...who continually makes progress, no matter how slow.”
― Plato

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#24

“good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws”
― Plato

tags: laws, people

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#25

“The measure of a man is what he does with power.”
― Plato

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#26

“If women are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach them the same things.”
― Plato, The Republic

tags: abilities, empowerment, equality, gender, instruction, jobs, men, skills, women, work

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#27

“Those who tell the stories rule society.”
― Plato

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#28

“Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge. ”
― Plato

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#29

“The madness of love is the greatest of heaven's blessings.”
― Plato, Phaedrus

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#30

“Education is teaching our children to desire the right things.”
― Plato

tags: inspirational

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