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henrykelek:
In all thy getting get wisdom. I have search for wisdom from proverbs to ecclesiates to power of positive thinking to plato's work. Then i found that it comes freely from God. May God grant us all wisdom to suceed beyond our imaginations

Beautiful amen to that.

Habatically

BeeBeeOoh:
Where ever you are, don't forget your background......words from d gods. But na too much sense go kill/na hin kill dis man..

Whether u've sense or u are senseless, man is going to die anyway. Death don't put sentimentality in his act. When ur time comes, dats d end. No matter how much sense u have or how senseless u are. The end will always come.

Cutehector:
nah nah. No buts. I get wowed by the things I do. Ok leme not be selfish. I get surprised as to how the people who u wr friends wit for a very long time become strangers

It's very simple to decrypt. I believe u know that the only thing that's constant is a change. And as long as that stands, there will never be a permanent condition. As things changes, so do people.

LaRoyalHighness:
Wise words.... "Man know thy self"

Yea....

If I have learned something from Socrates is that you cannot teach people anything; you can only make them think. You can only draw out of them the wisdom which is latent within them. And by doing so, you help open their eyes, making them realize that they were born with wings and that they can fly, as high as they want to fly… Anyway, I gathered what I thought to be some of Socrates best quotes and compiled them into 17 life changing lessons that you might want to learn. Here they are:

1. TRUE WISDOM IS IN KNOWING YOU KNOW
NOTHING.
“I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.” ~ Socrates

“To know, is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge.” ~ Socrates

“I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I
know nothing.” ~ Socrates

“True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.” ~ Socrates

2. BE AS YOU WISH TO SEEM.
“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.” ~ Socrates

3. NOTHING CHANGES UNTIL YOU DO.
“Let him that would move the world first move himself.” ~ Socrates

“Remember that there is nothing stable in human affairs; therefore avoid undue elation in prosperity, or undue depression in adversity.” ~ Socrates

4. VIRTUE IS NOT GIVEN BY MONEY, BUT THAT
FROM VIRTUE COMES MONEY AND EVERY OTHER
GOOD OF MAN, PUBLIC AS WELL AS PRIVATE.

“I do nothing but go about persuading you all, old and young alike, not to take thought for your persons or your properties, but and chiefly to care about the greatest improvement of the soul. I tell you that virtue is not given by money, but that from virtue comes money and every other good of man, public as well as private. This is my teaching, and if this is the doctrine which corrupts the youth, I am a mischievous person.” ~ Socrates

5. EMPLOY YOUR TIME IN IMPROVING YOURSELF BY OTHER MEN’S WRITINGS.

“Employ your time in improving yourself by other men’s writings so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.” ~ Socrates

6. THOSE WHO REALIZE THAT THEY HAVE ENOUGH, ARE TRULY RICH.
“He is richest who is content with the least, for
content is the wealth of nature.” ~ Socrates

“Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty.” ~ Socrates

7. THOU SHOULDST EAT TO LIVE; NOT LIVE TO EAT.

“Worthless people live only to eat and drink; people of worth eat and drink only to live.” ~ Socrates

8. NOT LIFE, BUT GOOD LIFE, IS TO BE CHIEFLY VALUED.
“The unexamined life is not worth living.” ~ Socrates

“The really important thing is not to live, but to live well. And to live well meant, along with more enjoyable things in life, to live according to your principles.” ~ Socrates

9. EVERYTHING IN LIFE CHANGES, NOTHING EVER STAYS THE SAME.
“If you don’t get what you want, you suffer; if you
get what you don’t want, you suffer; even when you get exactly what you want, you still suffer because you can’t hold on to it forever. Your mind is your predicament. It wants to be free of change. Free of pain, free of the obligations of life and death. But change is law and no amount of pretending will alter that reality.” ~ Socrates

10. BEING BUSY IS NOT ENOUGH. IT’S WHAT ARE YOU BUSY WITH THAT COUNTS.
“Beware the barrenness of a busy life.” ~ Socrates

11. DON’T CONFINE YOURSELF TO CERTAIN PARTS OF THE WORLD, EXPLORE IT ALL.
“I am not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world.” ~ Socrates

12. DON’T LET OTHER PEOPLE DO YOUR THINKING FOR YOU.
“To find yourself, think for yourself.” ~ Socrates

13. DON’T RUSH INTO FRIENDSHIPS.
“Be slow to fall into friendship, but when you are in, continue firm and constant.” ― Socrates

14. BE IMPECCABLE WITH YOUR WORD.
“False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.” ~ Socrates

15. NEVER RETURN EVIL FOR EVIL. YOU WILL HURT YOURSELF IN THE PROCESS.
“One who is injured ought not to return the injury, for on no account can it be right to do an injustice; and it is not right to return an injury, or to do evil to any man, however much we have suffered from him.” ~ Socrates

16. ALL MEN’S SOULS ARE IMMORTAL.
“All men’s souls are immortal, but the souls of the
righteous are immortal and divine.” ~ Socrates

17. NEVER STOP WONDERING.
“Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.” ~ Socrates

BONUS
“The easiest and noblest way is not to be crushing
others, but to be improving yourselves. ” ~Socrates

“No man has the right to be an amateur in the matter of physical training. It is a shame for a man to grow old without seeing the beauty and strength of which his body is capable.” ~ Socrates

“If you want to be a good saddler, saddle the worst horse; for if you can tame one, you can tame all.” ~ Socrates

“In all of us, even in good men, there is a lawless wild-beast nature, which peers out in sleep.” ~ Socrates


Your Turn:
Do you have a favorite quote from Socrates? You can share your comment in the comment section below.

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Cutehector:
What surprises me most is hw awesome I am

Kul. But.....

Dalai Lama was asked this question and his response was inspirational and mind altering. This is his response below:

“Man surprised me most about humanity. Because he sacrifices his health in order to make money.

Then he sacrifices money to recuperate his
health. And then he is so anxious about the future that he does not enjoy the present; the result being that he does not live in the present or the future; he lives as if he is never going to die, and then dies having never really lived.”

Pretty striking and powerful stuff if you really take it in. Sure, it’s easy to read this quote and move onto another page or video or whatever we may be doing, but if you truly take the time to let this reverberate in your conscious mind for a few minutes, the true meaning and profoundness of what he’s saying will kick in.

This is a great message for us to take five minutes to think about. After all, it may make us look at a few things in our lives differently

Your turn, what surprises u most?

Kul hints!

Good Samaritan. Una type still dey?

And best stalker of Nairaland goes to farano.

Btw, that number 1 member smile is really young and cute!



Somehow, the member above me doesn't know the meaning of male and female.

Nothing we no go see for 9Ja. Your husband said he want styles in sex, u said No DAT it's ungodly. Well, don't marry him. Wait for God to come and f^ck the hell out of u with different styles. Mtchew....

Fash20:
watch out 4 d world war 3.

Am looking forward to it already.

Fash20:
they are just living on the past glories.

Maybe. But There's no past glory that has superseded theirs during the past and present.

Fash20:
to herself right

Nope, to any nation that will try to challenge her!

Fact and figure!

Toilet flies

Fash20:
The US has nuclear weapons and she always prevent others from having theirs. Why?

That's to show how superior she is.

EVarn:
There will eventually be a confrontation between them if the US continues its attempt to surround Russia with NATO allies.that is what is fueling the war in ukraine now;ukraine wants to be a NATO nation,but russia is against such a decision due to ukraine's close proximity with russia....allowing ukraine to be a NATO nation means compromising the russian military activities which will eventually constrain putin's drive to annex all the weaker eastern-europe nations and reawaken the fallen soviet union.
if putin doesnt intervene in cuba very soon,i fear that the US will achieve its uthmost aim.already,cuba is likely to consider the US more favourable,due to america's power to lift cuba's sanctions.

Anyway, looking forward to it. All eyes on Cuba.

Kudos

EVarn:
everyone hails vladimir putin as wise and cunning,but putin is making a blunder by trying to defeat the west alone.
obama may eventually agree to lift the sanctions on cuba,and then coarse cuba into allowing the US to set up a military base under the dubious auspice of regional alliance and joint military exercise.of course,cuba will have no choice but to accept US conditions.
but we all know that america is preparing for a cold war against russia,and the US needs cuba to serve as a spy gateway through which sensitive intel on russia's military movements will be coalated and disseminated.
during the last cold war,russia made use of cuba as a base from whence they spied on US military engagements and later launched aerial demonstrations.the US is now trying to hijack that advantage.

It'll be interesting to see Russia go head to head with US. But for Cuba, it'll be a hard choice to make cos Putin is really watching her on 3D. Besides, it'll be a choice of which and which will be more favourable? And who's to tie with?

Thanks for all those analysis.....

EVarn:
exactly!
no matter how powerful a nation is,it still need allies,ties and partners.for example,in the case of north korea,the US can easily invade NK by galvanizing it forces through its military base in south korea.from its south korea military base,the US monitors{spies on} activities in china,north korea and japan,easily gathering sensitive intel that could be used in dismantling individual defenses.
the US has a military base in mali,therefore they could easily invade algeria,libya,niger,nigeria,morocco etc...
russia needs to begin fostering diplomatic ties with strategic nations all over the globe.russia must never allow the US to set up base in cuba or ukraine.

But too bad for them (Russia). Just of recent Obama paid visit to Cuba for some check-ons. And we all know US is cunning, isn't it?

If they can't get something from u, they don't offer.

Oh... Sorry for the loss!

Nigerian Soldiers displaying their training skills on civilians since 1960AD.

Sorry to the victims.

Christeety:
Very funny...too bad u guess wrong. So u actually know his name. Learn to talk nicely next time.

I should learn how to talk from who? Anyway, before I start learning. Am sure u're a dwarf.

Hisssss..... Is dis a news?

EVarn:
it is inevitable.without war,there cannot be order....

There can be order Bro. The only thing that's killing human race is feeling superior over one another. Imagine a world where every nations respects each other irrespective of one nations power and deficiencies? War will not even exist.

EVarn:
as much as it pains me to admit,russia cannot currently defeat the US,neither can the US completely dismantle russia.but if a war were to break between both of them;russia will lose a great deal,while the US loses almost nothing.russia needs time to form necessary alliances,military ties and weapon technology needed to sustain a conventional battle with the US.

And US has been doing that just fine. When it comes to alliances, US is everywhere unlike Russia that can't even dominate the northern Europe.

I quite agree with u!

Kevinoh:
With all these military possessions and preparations from all these top countries I wonder what the next world war would be like. I just hope and pray it never happens!

It is eminent. Russia is really pushing USA and USA will soon wants to prove their superiority against Russia. And I can bet u, dats what Russian federation has been preparing for.

lilbazy:
and you! Someone insulted me by wishing me all the calamities in the world without me doing him/her anything and you endorsed the curse with a voluminous amen! Is that what ur pastor/imam is teaching you? In the name that is above every other name,I declare blessing and happiness into ur life. God bless you.

I didn't really mean it. It was just an e-talk. Nothing serious abt it.

funmilayoB:
my bad i do not knw dat

Now u know!