Quote #41
Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.
More from Socrates
- Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others.
- Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.
- Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.
- Envy is the ulcer of the soul.
- Could I climb to the highest place in Athens, I would lift my voice and proclaim, 'Fellow citizens, why do you turn and scrape every stone …
- Fame is the perfume of heroic deeds.
- Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty.
- Flattery is like friendship in show, but not in fruit.