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Rohit Jindal 📚

19 Oct, 17 tweets, 2 min read

A THREAD on timeless quotes by Socrates:

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Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for.

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Intelligent individuals learn from every thing and every one; average people, from their experiences.

The stupid already have all the answers.

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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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Beware the barrenness of a busy life.

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

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We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.

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I cannot teach anybody anything.

I can only make them think.

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Let him who would move the world first move himself.

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Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.

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The unexamined life is not worth living.

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Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.

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

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When you want wisdom and insight as badly as you want to breathe, it is then you shall have it.

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Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty.

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Envy is the ulcer of the soul.

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

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