Quotes About Learning

Now tell me best of friends lmaoooo

me complace conversar con las personas de mucha edad, pues me parece que es conveniente aprender de ellos, ya que han recorrido un camino que también nosotros deberemos recorrer de igual modo, de qué condición es: áspero y difícil o fácil y cómodo.

quiénes son entonces -preguntó- los que llamas filósofos verdaderos? -Los que gustan de contemplar la verdad -respondí.

Un buen consejo viene de la ciencia y no de las riquezas.

but I would contend at all costs in both word and deed as far as I could that we will be better men, braver and less idle, if we believe that one must search for the things one does not [c] know, rather than if we believe that it is not possible to find out what we do not know and that we must not look for it.

Les prescribirás, pues, que se apliquen particular­mente a aquella enseñanza que les haga capaces de pre­guntar y responder con la máxima competencia posible?

And that only these two things, true belief and knowledge, guide correctly, and that if a man possesses these he gives correct guidance. The things that turn out right by some chance are not due to human guidance, but where there is correct human guidance it is due to two things, true belief or knowledge.

That I learn of others, I replied, is quite true; but that I am ungrateful I wholly deny. Money I have none, and therefore I pay in praise, which is all I have; and how ready I am to praise any one who appears to me to speak well you will very soon find out when you answer; for I expect that you will answer well.

Ich weiß, dass ich nicht weiß".

not to be learned; for all knowledge appears

en el alma, ningún conocimiento forzado es perdurable." (Platón, República).

but I want you to put him down.

IF A MAN NEGLECTS EDUCATION, HE WALKS LAME TO THE END OF HIS LIFE

el alma no conserva ningún conocimiento que haya penetrado en ella por la fuerza.

Knowledge, do you say it is power? yes most mighty of all powers.

Hemos de permitir, pues, tan ligeramente que los niños escuchen cualesquiera mitos, forjados por el primero que llegue, y que den cabida en su espíritu a ideas generalmente opuestas a las que creemos necesario que tengan inculcadas al llegar a mayores? -No debemos permitirlo en modo alguno.

Now early life is very impressible, and children ought not to learn what they will have to unlearn when they grow up; we must therefore have a censorship of nursery tales, banishing some and keeping others.

International

there is simple ignorance, which is the source of lighter offences, and double ignorance, which is accompanied by a conceit of wisdom; and he who is under the influence of the latter fancies that he knows all about matters of which he knows nothing.

There neither is nor ever will be a treatise of mine on the subject. For it does not admit of exposition like other branches of knowledge; but after much converse about the matter itself and a life lived together, suddenly a light, as it were, is kindled in one soul by a flame that leaps to it from another, and thereafter sustains itself.

quien durante tanto tiempo se ha ocupado de estos asuntos pueda exponerlas opiniones de los demás, pero no las suyas. -¿Pues qué? -dije yo-. ¿Te parece bien que hable uno de las cosas que no sabe como si las supiese?

pedagogical

The true lover of learning then must from his earliest youth, as far as in him lies, desire all truth...

I am wiser than this man, for neither of us appears to know anything great and good; but he fancies he knows something, although he knows nothing; whereas I, as I do not know anything, so I do not fancy I do. In this trifling particular, then, I appear to be wiser than he, because I do not fancy I know what I do not know.