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Socrates

"Most people, including ourselves, live in a world of relative ignorance. We are even comfortable with that ignorance, because it is all we know. When we first start facing truth, the process may be frightening, and many people run back to their old lives. But if you continue to seek truth, you will eventually be able to handle it better. In fact, you want more! It's true that many people around you now may think you are weird or even a danger to society, but you don't care. Once you've tasted the truth, you won't ever want to go back to being ignorant"

Source : Socrates, Gordon Jacobs (2017). “Socrates: 100 Quotes on Life, Free Will, and Virtue”, Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

Socrates

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“My interest in philosophy began as early as eight years old - I started thinking about those kinds of heavy questions about life and humanity.”
“Coming here, I sharpened and fine-tuned everything I had and needed. What I thought of as myself as a performer, I looked back and was like, â€˜Wow, I improved from where I was.â€™ I thought I was ready and then saw the improvements I made which were unbelievable. It makes the transition from down here to up there (the WWE roster) so much easier because youâ€™re prepared for what they need you to do. Itâ€™s not like youâ€™re jumping into a whole other world. Youâ€™re prepared for what they need.”
“Possibly you are not aware of the fact that the largest sum given by any contributor to the fund is but a trifle when compared with the losses suffered by nearly all the firms in the cotton trade during the disastrous years of the American war.”

Source : John Bright, H. J. Leech (1885). “The Public Letters of John Bright”, London : S. Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington
“Suffering begins when you mentally label a situation as bad.Â That causes an emotional contraction.Â When you let it be, without naming it, enormous power is available to you.Â The contraction cuts you off from that power, the power of life itself.”
“I'm tired of malicious articles slandering me.”
“There is not one right way to ride a wave.”
“Stars which stand as thick as dewdrops on the field of heaven.”
“I always felt my emancipation into truly being a grown-up was when I had to figure out how to fold up a king-size fitted bottom sheet on my own.”

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