Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.
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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...
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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 ...
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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...
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The reason is that they utter these words of theirs not by virtue of a skill, but by a divine power - otherwise, if they knew how to speak well on one...
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Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body; but knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.
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And whenever any one informs us that he has found a man who knows all the arts, and all things else that anybody knows, and every single thing with a ...
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Either we shall find what it is we are seeking or at least we shall free ourselves from the persuasion that we know what we do not know.
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Haven't you noticed that opinion without knowledge is always a poor thing? At the best it is blind—isn't anyone who holds a true opinion without under...
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Those who don't know must learn from those who do.
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Then we shan’t regard anyone as a lover of knowledge or wisdom who is fussy about what he studies…
