And last are the few whose delight is in meditation and understanding; who yearn not for goods, nor for victory, but for knowledge; who leave both market and battlefield to lose themselves in the quiet clarity of secluded thought; whose will is a light rather than a fire, whose haven is not power but truth: these are the men of wisdom, who stand aside unused by the world. Will Durant
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In the time of Socrates, when he was in his prime, he was often buried in his own thoughts. This gave him a great deal of time to think about things and learn from them. This lead to him making a lot of discoveries, and it is thought that this is what made him wise. But Socrates wasn’t the only one with this type of thinking.

In fact, many people today have their own ideas and thoughts about things. They aren’t always the most popular ideas, but they are still very good ones.

Source: The Story Of Philosophy: The Lives And Opinions Of The Worlds Greatest Philosophers

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