{"id":8747,"date":"2017-04-27T13:16:04","date_gmt":"2017-04-27T07:46:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/patriotsforumindia.com\/?p=8747"},"modified":"2017-04-27T13:16:29","modified_gmt":"2017-04-27T07:46:29","slug":"24-great-quotes-from-socrates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/patriotsforumindia.com\/?p=8747","title":{"rendered":"24 Great Quotes From Socrates"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Socrates was a classical Greek philosopher credited as one of the founders of Western philosophy. He is an enigmatic figure known chiefly through the accounts of classical writers, especially the writings of his students Plato and Xenophon and the plays of his contemporary Aristophanes. Plato’s dialogues are among the most comprehensive accounts of Socrates to survive from antiquity. Through his portrayal in Plato’s dialogues, Socrates has become renowned for his contribution to the field of ethics, and it<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Socrates was a classical Greek philosopher credited as one of the founders of Western philosophy. He is an enigmatic figure known chiefly through the accounts of classical writers, especially the writings of his students Plato and Xenophon and the plays of his contemporary Aristophanes. Plato’s dialogues are among the most comprehensive accounts of Socrates to survive from antiquity.
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Through his portrayal in Plato’s dialogues, Socrates has become renowned for his contribution to the field of ethics, and it is this Platonic Socrates who lends his name to the concepts of Socratic irony and the Socratic method, or elenchus. The latter remains a commonly used tool in a wide range of discussions, and is a type of pedagogy in which a series of questions is asked not only to draw individual answers, but also to encourage fundamental insight into the issue at hand. Plato’s Socrates also made important and lasting contributions to the field of epistemology, and the influence of his ideas and approach remains a strong foundation for much western philosophy that followed.

Let us remember his wisdom by reading 24 famous quotes of his:

1)\u00a0\u201cThe only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.\u201d\u00a0<\/i>

2)\u00a0\u201cThe unexamined life is not worth living.\u201d<\/i>

3)\u00a0\u201cThere is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance.\u201d<\/i>

4)\u00a0\u201cI cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think\u201d<\/i>

5)\u00a0\u201cBe kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.\u201d<\/i>

6)\u00a0\u201cStrong minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, weak minds discuss people.\u201d<\/i><\/b>

7)\u00a0\u201cBy all means marry; if you get a good wife, you\u2019ll become happy; if you get a bad one, you\u2019ll become a philosopher.\u201d<\/i>

8)\u00a0\u201cHe who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.\u201d<\/i>

9)\u00a0\u201cIf 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.\u201d<\/i>

10)\u00a0\u201cSometimes you put walls up not to keep people out, but to see who cares enough to break them down.\u201d<\/b><\/i>

11)\u00a0\u201cWonder is the beginning of wisdom.\u201d<\/i>

12)\u00a0\u201cTo find yourself, think for yourself.\u201d<\/i>

13)\u00a0\u201cEducation is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.\u201d<\/b><\/i>

14)\u00a0\u201cKnow thyself.\u201d<\/b><\/i>

15)\u00a0\u201cLet him who would move the world first move himself.\u201d<\/i>

16)\u00a0\u201cThe secret of happiness, you see, is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less.\u201d<\/i>

17)\u00a0\u201cThe secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new.\u201d<\/b><\/i>

18)\u00a0\u201cI am not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world.\u201d<\/b><\/i>

19)\u00a0\u201cPrefer knowledge to wealth, for the one is transitory, the other perpetual.\u201d<\/i>

20)\u00a0\u201cunderstanding a question is half an answer\u201d<\/i>

21)\u00a0\u201cTrue wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us\u201d<\/i>

22)\u00a0\u201cHe is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.\u201d<\/i>

23)\u00a0\u201cTo be is to do\u201d<\/i>

24)\u00a0\u201cThe mind is everything; what you think you become\u201d<\/b><\/i><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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