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Misattributed quotes — Socrates

470 BC–399 BC Greece

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11 quotes

As for me, all I know is that I know nothing.

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

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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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Exercise till the mind feels delight in reposing from the fatigue.

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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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The really important thing is not to live, but to live well. And to live well meant, along with more enjoyable things in life, to live according to your principles.

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The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be.

Misattributed No findable citation to Socrates. Found ascribed to Socrates in Stephen Covey (1992)

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

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When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser.

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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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The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise. Children are now tyrants, not the servants of their households. They no longer rise when elders enter the room. They contradict their parents, chatter before company, gobble up dainties at the table, cross their legs, and tyrannize their teachers.

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Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Socrates (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.