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“Socrates had a student named Plato, Plato had a student named Aristotle, and Aristotle had a student named Alexander the Great.”
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“Charles V said that a man who knew four languages was worth four men; and Alexander the Great so valued learning, that he used to say he was more indebted to Aristotle for giving him knowledge that, than his father Philip for giving him life.”
Thomas Babington Macaulay quotes (English Historian, 1800-1859)
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“I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.”
Socrates quotes (Ancient Greek Philosopher, 470 BC-399 BC)
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“Socrates thought that if all our misfortunes were laid in one common heap, whence every one must take an equal portion, most persons would be contented to take their own and depart”
Plutarch quotes (Ancient Greek Biographer and Author, 46-119)
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“Socrates called beauty a short-lived tyranny; Plato, a privilege of nature; Theophrastus, a silent cheat; Theocritus, a delightful prejudice; Carneades, a solitary kingdom; Aristotle, that it was better than all the letters of recommendation in the w”
Francis Quarles quotes (English religious Poet. 1592-1644)
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“Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge”
Plato quotes (Ancient Greek Philosopher He was the world's most influential philosopher. 428 BC-348 BC)
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“Socrates said, Bad men live that they may eat and drink, whereas good men eat and drink that they may live”
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“I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
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“Is it so bad 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.”
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“At a turbulent public meeting once I lost my temper and said some harsh and sarcastic things. The proposal I was supporting was promptly defeated. My father who was there, said nothing, but that night, on my pillow I found a marked passage from 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.”
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“Nature has given us two ears, two eyes, and but one tongue-to the end that we should hear and see more than we speak.”
Socrates quotes (Ancient Greek Philosopher, 470 BC-399 BC)
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