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  • #1
    Mahatma Gandhi
    “Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
    Mahatma Gandhi

  • #2
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
    Marcus Tullius Cicero

  • #3
    Plato
    “Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle.”
    Plato

  • #4
    Plato
    “Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.”
    Plato

  • #5
    Plato
    “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.”
    Plato

  • #6
    Plato
    “The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.”
    Plato

  • #7
    Plato
    “Do not train a child to learn by force or harshness; but direct them to it by what amuses their minds, so that you may be better able to discover with accuracy the peculiar bent of the genius of each.”
    Plato

  • #8
    Milan Kundera
    “He suddenly recalled from Plato's Symposium: People were hermaphrodites until God split then in two, and now all the halves wander the world over seeking one another. Love is the longing for the half of ourselves we have lost.”
    Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

  • #9
    Plato
    “Love is a serious mental disease.”
    Plato, Phaedrus

  • #10
    Plato
    “One of the penalties of refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.”
    Plato

  • #11
    Plato
    “Never discourage anyone...who continually makes progress, no matter how slow.”
    Plato

  • #12
    Plato
    “good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws”
    Plato

  • #13
    Plato
    “Ignorance, the root and stem of every evil.”
    Plato

  • #14
    Plato
    “Those who tell the stories rule society.”
    Plato

  • #15
    Isaac Newton
    “I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.”
    Isaac Newton

  • #16
    Aristotle
    “Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.”
    Aristotle

  • #17
    Aristotle
    “Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.”
    Aristotle

  • #18
    Aristotle
    “No great mind has ever existed without a touch of madness.”
    Aristotle

  • #19
    Aristotle
    “Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.”
    Aristotle

  • #20
    Aristotle
    “Anybody can become angry — that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way — that is not within everybody's power and is not easy.”
    Aristotle

  • #21
    Aristotle
    “To perceive is to suffer.”
    Aristotle

  • #22
    Elbert Hubbard
    “To avoid criticism say nothing, do nothing, be nothing.”
    Elbert Hubbard, Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great Vol. 3: American Statesmen

  • #23
    Aristotle
    “Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.”
    Aristotle

  • #24
    Aristotle
    “Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.”
    Aristotle

  • #25
    Aristotle
    “He who has overcome his fears will truly be free.”
    Aristotle

  • #26
    Aristotle
    “Those who know, do. Those that understand, teach.”
    Aristotle

  • #27
    Socrates
    “The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.”
    Socrates

  • #28
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood.”
    Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self Reliance

  • #29
    Socrates
    “I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think”
    Socrates

  • #30
    Socrates
    “Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.”
    Socrates



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