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About BS Political Science NYIT - Class of 1981
Favorite Professor Dr. Luis Navia Professor of Philosophy

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Favourite philosophers Socrates, Plato, Aristotle and Dr Navia
Favourite quotations Socrates:

To know, is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge. We learn from each other

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.
Our prayers should be for blessings in general, for God knows best what is good for us.

The unexamined life is not worth living.

Wisdom begins in wonder.

False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.

Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.
I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean.
Born: 470/469
Died 399 BC

Plato:
Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something.

The measure of a man is what he does with power.

Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.
Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.

I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.-The Republic
Born: 427 BC, Classical Athens
Died: 347 BC, Classical Athens

Aristotle:
Quality is not an act, it is a habit.

It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.

There is no great genius without some touch of madness.
Happiness depends upon ourselves.

The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.

Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others.
Born: 384 BC, Stagira, Greece
Died: 322 BC, Chalcis, Greece

Thomas Jefferson:

I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
It takes time to persuade men to do even what is for their own good.

I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.

Whenever the people are well-informed, they can be trusted with their own government.

Do not bite at the bait of pleasure, till you know there is no hook beneath it.

He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.

When angry count to ten before you speak. If very angry, count to one hundred.

One man with courage is a majority.

Abraham Lincoln:

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.

You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.

Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.
A house divided against itself cannot stand.

If I had six hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend the first four hours sharpening the axe.

Mark Twain:

History doesn't repeat itself but it often rhymes
Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.

The secret of getting ahead is getting started.
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.

You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.

It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.

Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.

It's no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense.

Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often.
It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so.

Tedeschi:

Destiny is an interesting belief; there is a reason for the path we take, yet we need to arrive to know it.

You’ll know it when you see it, for until you do, it will be unknown

The end is only another beginning. To arrive at the point that you left with greater knowledge, experience, and wisdom is enlightenment, as with a flame constantly renewing itself.
You may blow on a sail and it will travel in the direction of your breadth, but a rock will not budge. Some people are rocks.
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