Quotes About Understanding

Todos os que afirmam saber as coisas sobre as quais medito, seja por tê-las ouvido de mim, seja por tê-las ouvido de outros, seja por tê-las descoberto sozinhos, não é possível, segundo meu parecer, que tenham entendido algo desse objeto. Sobre essas coisas não existe um texto escrito meu nem existirá jamais.

Those who are able to see beyond the shadows and lies of their culture will never be understood, let alone believed, by the masses.

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

True friendship can exist only between equals.

How could they see anything but the shadows if they were never allowed to move their heads?

All I really know is the extent of my own ignorance

A dog has the soul of a philosopher.

That's what education should be, I said, the art of orientation. Educators should devise the simplest and most effective methods of turning minds around. It shouldn't be the art of implanting sight in the organ, but should proceed on the understanding that the organ already has the capacity, but is improperly aligned and isn't facing the right way.

Those who don't know must learn from those who do.

Wise men talk because they have something to say; Fools, because they have to say something.

I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was capable of reasoning.

All learning has an emotional base.

We do not learn, and that what we call learning is only a process of recollection.

Be kind, because everyone is having a really hard time.

What shall we say about those spectators, then, who can see a plurality of beautiful things, but not beauty itself, and who are incapable of following if someone else tries to lead them to it, and who can see many moral actions, but not morality itself, and so on? That they only ever entertain beliefs, and do not know any of the things they believe?

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 higher degree of accuracy than any other man –whoever tells us this, I think that we can only imagine him to be a simple creature who is likely to have been deceived by some wizard or actor whom he met, and whom he thought all-knowing, because he himself was unable to analyze the nature of knowledge and ignorance and imitation.

And Agathon said, It is probable, Socrates, that I knew nothing of what I had said. And yet spoke you beautifully, Agathon, he said.

For as there are misanthropists, or haters of men, there are also misologists, or haters of ideas, and both spring from the same cause, which is ignorance of the world.

Always be kind, for everyone is fighting a hard battle.

The truth is that we isolate a particular kind of love and appropriate it for the name of love, which really belongs to a wider whole.

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

Knowledge unqualified is knowledge simply of something learned.

Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools speak because they have to say something

The point which I should first wish to understand is whether the pious or holy is beloved by the gods because it is holy, or holy because it is beloved of the gods.