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Knowledge unqualified is knowledge simply of something learned.

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It's like this, I think: the excellence of a good body doesn't make the soul good, but the other way around: the excellence of a good soul makes the b...more

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Ideas are the source of all things

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Thinking: the talking of the soul with itself.

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A good decision is based on knowledge and not on numbers.

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Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

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Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue.

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All good and evil, whether in the body or in human nature, originates in the soul, and overflows from thence, as if from the head into the eyes.

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The learning and knowledge that we have, is, at the most, but little compared with that of which we are ignorant.

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Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.

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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...more

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Knowledge is the food of the soul.

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The life which is unexamined is not worth living.

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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 ...more

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Socrates: This man, on one hand, believes that he knows something, while not knowing [anything]. On the other hand, I – equally ignorant – do not beli...more