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Learning Quotes by Socrates

13 Learning quotes by Socrates

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“How many things can I do without?”

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Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel

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There is no learning without remembering.

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I soon realized that poets do not compose their poems with knowledge, but by some inborn talent and by inspiration, like seers…

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Only the knowledge that comes from inside is the real Knowledge

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Whatever authority I may have rests solely on knowing how little I know.

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The highest realms of thought are impossible to reach without first attaining an understanding of compassion.

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The understanding of mathematics is necessary for a sound grasp of ethics.

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True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.

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The only thing I know is that I know nothing

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Nothing is so well learned as that which is discovered.

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Has a philosopher like you failed to discover that our country is more to be valued and higher and holier far than…

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Understanding a question is half an answer.

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By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.

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Falling down is not a failure. Failure comes when you stay where you have fallen.

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Do not go through life like leaf blown from here to there believing whatever you are told.

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If the whole world depends on today's youth, I can't see the world lasting another 100 years.

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“I only know, I know nothing”

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I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.

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If measure and symmetry are absent from any composition in any degree, ruin awaits both the ingredients and the composition... Measure and symmetry are…

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Marry a good woman, and be happy the rest of your life. Or, marry a bad, and become a good philosopher

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“For the fear of death is indeed the pretense of wisdom, and not real wisdom, being a pretense of knowing the unknown; and no…

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There is no difference between knowledge and temperance; for he who knows what is good and embraces it, who knows what is bad and…

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Besides, it is a shame to let yourself grow old through neglect before seeing how you can develop the maximum beauty and strength of…

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The greatest blessing granted to mankind come by way of madness, which is a divine gift.

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