

“Never discourage anyone who continually makes progress, no matter how slow.”
Traced to Sophist.
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“Thinking that one knows a thing when one does not know it, through this all the mistakes of the mind are caused in all of us.”
Plato
Sophist
verified“Grant that I may be beautiful inside. Let all my external possessions be in friendly harmony with what is within. May I consider the wise man rich.”
Plato
Phaedrus
verified“Knowledge is the food of the soul.”
Plato
Protagoras
verified“Pleasure is the bait of sin.”
Plato
Timaeus
verified“Neither family, nor privilege, nor wealth, nor anything but Love can light that beacon which a man must steer by when he sets out to live the better life.”
Plato
The Symposium
verified“The madness of love is the greatest of heaven's blessings.”
Plato
Phaedrus
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“Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement; nothing can be done without hope.”
Helen Keller
Optimism · 1903
verified“One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.”
Helen Keller
Address to the American Association to Promote the Teaching of Speech to the Deaf · 1896
verified“When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.”
Helen Keller
We Bereaved · 1929
verified“You may never know what results come of your actions. But if you do nothing, there will be no result.”
Mahatma Gandhi
Speech at a prayer meeting, New Delhi · 1947
verified“What man actually needs is not a tensionless state but rather the striving and struggling for some goal worthy of him. What he needs is not the discharge of tension at any cost, but the call of a potential meaning waiting to be fulfilled by him.”
Viktor Frankl
Man's Search for Meaning · 1959
verified“The time is always right to do what's right.”
Martin Luther King Jr.
The Future of Integration, address at Oberlin College · 1964
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