Attacking Quote by Socrates Download Open image “Obscurity is dispelled by augmenting the light of discernment, not by attacking the darkness.” — Socrates ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.8 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Attacking Darkness Discernment Light Obscurity
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“Real obscurantism is not to hinder the spread of what is true, clear, and useful, but to bring into vogue what is false.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
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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. — Socrates Copy Share Image
Falling down is not a failure. Failure comes when you stay where you have fallen. — Socrates Copy Share Image
Do not go through life like leaf blown from here to there believing whatever you are told. — Socrates Copy Share Image
If the whole world depends on today's youth, I can't see the world lasting another 100 years. — Socrates Copy Share Image
If measure and symmetry are absent from any composition in any degree, ruin awaits both the ingredients and the composition... Measure and symmetry are… — Socrates Copy Share Image
Marry a good woman, and be happy the rest of your life. Or, marry a bad, and become a good philosopher — Socrates Copy Share Image
“For the fear of death is indeed the pretense of wisdom, and not real wisdom, being a pretense of knowing the unknown; and no… — Socrates Copy Share Image
There is no difference between knowledge and temperance; for he who knows what is good and embraces it, who knows what is bad and… — Socrates Copy Share Image
Besides, it is a shame to let yourself grow old through neglect before seeing how you can develop the maximum beauty and strength of… — Socrates Copy Share Image
The greatest blessing granted to mankind come by way of madness, which is a divine gift. — Socrates Copy Share Image
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Attack the evil that is within yourself, rather than attacking the evil that is in others. — Confucius Copy Share Image
Let a man who has to make his fortune in life remember this maxim: Attacking is the only secret. Dare and the world yields,… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
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When I listen to candidates spend all their time attacking Barack Obama, I'm glad they're not driving this bus because they'd be looking through… — John Kasich Copy Share Image
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