"Knowledge unqualified is knowledge simply of something learned.












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"Ideas are the source of all things
"And what, Socrates, is the food of the soul? Surely, I said, knowledge is the food of the soul.
"A good decision is based on knowledge and not on numbers.
"Similarly with regard to truth, won't we say that a soul is maimed if it hates a voluntary falsehood, cannot endure to have one in itself, and is grea...
"Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.
"The learning and knowledge that we have, is, at the most, but little compared with that of which we are ignorant.
"Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
"Entire ignorance is not so terrible or extreme an evil, and is far from being the greatest of all; too much cleverness and too much learning, accompan...
"Knowledge is the food of the soul.
"The life which is unexamined is not worth living.
"Education isn't what some people declare it to be, namely, putting knowledge into souls that lack it, like putting sight into blind eyes...The power t...
"Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion has no hold on the mind. Therefore do not use compulsion, but let early education be a sort of amusement;...
"I would teach children music, physics, and philosophy; but most importantly music, for the patterns in music and all the arts are the keys to learning
"I thought to myself: I am wiser than this man; neither of us probably knows anything that is really good, but he thinks he has knowledge, when he has ...