Quotes About Learning

Pero estar ansioso de aprender y ser filósofo ¿No es una misma cosa?

Não é possível dar a outrem o que não se tem, bem como não é possível ensinar o que não se sabe.

And surely it is the most blameworthy [b]ignorance to believe that one knows what one does not know.

I shall never fear or avoid things of which I do not know, whether they may not be good rather than things that [c]{34} I know to be bad.

When a person supposes that he knows, and does not know; this appears to be the great source of all the errors of the intellect.

It looks, Socrates, as though I didn't know what I was talking about then.

No reproach for a person willing to give honorable service in the passion to become wise.

él cree saberlo aunque no sepa nada, y yo, no sabiendo nada, creo no saber.

but if you wish to get better training, you must do something more than that; you must consider not only what happens if a particular hypothesis is true, but also what happens if it is not true. 135e-136a

I know that I know nothing

Education certainly gives victory, although victory sometimes produces forgetfulness of education; for many have grown insolent from victory in war, and this insolence has engendered in them innumerable evils; and many a victory has been and will be suicidal to the victors; but education is never suicidal.

el más sabio entre vosotros es aquel que reconoce, como Sócrates, que su sabiduría no es nada.»

People's souls give up much more easily in hard study than in physical training, since the pain—being peculiar to them and not shared with their body—is more their own.

Other sort of training, which aims at the acquisition of wealth or bodily strength, or mere cleverness apart from intelligence and justice, is mean and illiberal, and is not worthy to be called education at all.

And is it not best to understand what is said, whether at the writing-master's or the music-master's, or anywhere else, not as quietly as possible, but as quickly as possible? Yes.

While I, just as I do not know, do not even suppose that I do. I am likely to be a little bit wiser than he in this very thing: that whatever I do not know, I do not even suppose I know.

I think it's too much to call to call him wise, Phaedrus: only the gods deserve that label. But it would suit him better and be more appropriate to call him a lover of wisdom, or something like that.

Knowledge is prior to any particular knowledge, and exists not in the previous state of the individual, but of the race. It is potential, not actual, and can only be appropriated by strenuous exertion.

Manusia tidak mencapai kebenaran dalam semua aspeknya, dan tidak akan terjatuh ke dalam kesalahan dalam semua aspeknya.

It is better to be unborn than untaught: for ignorance is the root of misfortune.

Nothing taught by force stays in the soul.

SOCRATES: Say rather, with the wisest of all living men, if you are willing to accord that title to Protagoras. COMPANION: What! Is Protagoras in Athens? SOCRATES: Yes; he has been here two days. COMPANION: And do you just come from an interview with him? SOCRATES: Yes; and I have heard and said many things.

Well, although I do not suppose that either of us knows anything really beautiful and good, I am better off than he is,— for he knows nothing, and thinks that he knows; I neither know nor think that I know.

A free soul ought not to pursue any study slavishly; for while bodily labours performed under constraint do not harm the body, nothing that is learned under compulsion stays in the mind.