Coaches Hot Seat NFL Quotes of the Day – Tuesday, February 28, 2017 – Socrates
Coaches Hot Seat NFL Quotes of the Day – Tuesday, February 28, 2017 – Socrates
“The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.”
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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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“Let him that would move the world first move himself.”
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“It is not living that matters, but living rightly.”
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“He is a man of courage who does not run away, but remains at his post and fights against the enemy.”
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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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“He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.”
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“The unexamined life is not worth living.”
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“Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.”
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“Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.”
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“Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.”
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“Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.”
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“If 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.”
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“Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty.”
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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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“I shall never cease from the practice and teaching of philosophy, exhorting anyone whom I meet after my manner, and convincing him, saying: O my friend, why do you who are a citizen of the great and mighty and wise city of Athens, care so much about laying up the greatest amount of money and honor and reputation, and so little about wisdom and truth and the greatest improvement of the soul, which you never regard or heed at all? Are you not ashamed of this? And if the person with whom I an arguing says: Yes, but I do care: I do not depart or let him go at once; I interrogate and examine and cross-examine him, and if I think that he has no virtue, but only says that he has, I reproach him with overvaluing the greater, and undervaluing the less. …For this is the command of God, as I would have you know…”
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“You will know that the divine is so great and of such a nature that it sees and hears everything at once, is present everywhere, and is concerned with everything.”
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“I am not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world.”
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“Bad men live that they may eat and drink, whereas good men eat and drink that they may live.”
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“Often when looking at a mass of things for sale, he would say to himself, ‘How many things I have no need of!””
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“There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance.”
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“I would rather die having spoken in my manner, than speak in your manner and live. For neither in war nor yet in law ought any man use every way of escaping death. For often in battle there is no doubt that if a man will throw away his arms, and fall on his knees before his pursuers, he may escape death, if a man is willing to say or do anything. The difficulty, my friends, is not in avoiding death, but in avoiding unrighteousness; for that runs deeper than death.”
Wikipedia Page: Socrates
