Socrates Best QUOTES That Will Change your Mindset Forever

"The secret of happiness, you see, is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less."

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

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*Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm and constant."

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*True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us."

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*The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new."

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*Prefer knowledge to wealth, for the one is transitory, the other perpetual."

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*The mind is everything; what you think you become."

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*He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature."

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"Understanding a question is half an answer."

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*The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing."

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*There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance."

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*The unexamined life is not worth living."

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*Strong minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, weak minds discuss people."

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*I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think."

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*Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle."

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*By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you’ll become happy; if you get a bad one, you’ll become a philosopher."

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*If you don’t get what you want, you suffer; if you get what you don’t want, you suffer; even when you get exactly what you want, you still suffer because you can’t hold on to it forever. 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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*He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have."

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*Wonder is the beginning of wisdom."

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*Sometimes you put walls up not to keep people out, but to see who cares enough to break them down."

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*Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel."

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*To find yourself, think for yourself."

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*Remember that there is nothing stable in human affairs; therefore avoid undue elation in prosperity or undue depression in adversity."

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"False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil."

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"Nature has given us two ears, two eyes, and but one tongue-to the end that we should hear and see more than we speak."

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"Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers."

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"All men’s souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine."

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"Strong minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, weak minds discuss people."

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"If all misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be contented to take their own and depart."

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