17 Life Changing Lessons To Learn From Socrates

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If there’s one thing I’ve learned from Socrates is you can’t teach people anything. No matter how hard you try, you’re never going to teach them anything. You can only make people think. You help open their eyes and realize what they are capable of.

Here are 17 of the best quotes and life changing lessons we can take from Socrates. Did we miss your favorite Socrates quotes? Share it in the comments below!

1. You have to be as you want to seem. No faking!

“The shortest and surest way to live with honor in the world, is to be in reality what we would appear to be; and if we observe, we shall find, that all human virtues increase and strengthen themselves by the practice of them.”