Socrates Quotes

I prefer to be refuted than to refute, for it is a greater good for oneself to be freed from the greatest evil than to free another.

Socrates

• Good
• Evil
• Prefer
• Freed
• Refute

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• The sky in Texas is the most amazing sky in the whole country, I think, like you can see more sky in Texas than you can see anywhere else in the world.

  

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• We have been learning since we were children how to make money, buy things, build things. The whole education system is set up to teach us how to think, not to feel.

  

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• I prefer to be refuted than to refute, for it is a greater good for oneself to be freed from the greatest evil than to free another.

  

  Socrates
  • Good
  • Evil
  • Prefer