15 Deep Philosophy Quotes From "Socrates"

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1. “Strong minds discuss ideas,
average minds discuss events,
weak minds discuss people.”

- Socrates
2. "Awareness of ignorance is the beginning of wisdom."

- Socrates
3. “The mind is everything; what you think you become”

- Socrates
4. "By all means, marry. If you get a good wife, you'll become happy;

if you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher."

- Socrates
5. "To find yourself, think for yourself."

- Socrates
6. "Do not grieve over someone who changes all of the sudden.

It might be that he has given up acting and returned to his true self."

- Socrates
7. "If you want to be wrong then follow the masses."

- Socrates
8. "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is a habit."

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

- Socrates
10. “Be nicer than necessary to everyone you meet. Everyone is fighting some kind of battle.”

- Socrates
11. "He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have."

- Socrates
12. "When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser."

- Socrates
13. “I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think”

- Socrates
14. "The only true wisdom is knowing that you know nothing."

- Socrates

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One of the most popular insights I shared was the idea of operating in your Zone of Genius.

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Your Zone of Genius is where your interests, passions and skills align.

Operating in it means you stop playing *their* games and start playing *yours*.

This thread shares my framework—built through personal struggle—for finding and operating in your Zone of Genius:

First, let's get one thing straight.

Everyone has a Zone of Genius.

"Genius" here is a relative term, not an absolute.

It's not about being top 1% at something—it's about the unique space where your relative strengths are accentuated (and relative weaknesses masked).

Furthermore, everyone’s Zone of Genius is different and unique to them as an individual.

The goal of a founder, startup, or organization, therefore, is to build a team with complementary—not conflicting—Zones of Genius.

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