Quotes About Understanding

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

For it is clear, on the one hand, that have you been familiar with these things for a long time—whatever you wish to signify when you utter being—and, before this we used to believe it, but now we have been perplexed.

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

Coloro che sono capaci di vedere oltre le ombre e le bugie della propria cultura non saranno mai capiti, tanto meno creduti, dalle masse.

de dos hombres que caminan juntos, el uno ve lo que el otro no ve».[27]

For it is clear, on the one hand, that you have been familiar with these things for a long time —whatever you wish to signify when you utter being— and, before this we used to believe it, but now we have been perplexed.

Yo he alcanzado este popular renombre por una cierta clase de sabiduría que poseo. ¿De qué sabiduría se trata? Ciertamente, de una sabiduría propia de los humanos. Y en ella es posible que yo sea sabio

a human being is the measure of all things. of the things that are, that they are, and of things that are not, that they are not.

Try to pay attention to me,, she said, as best as you can. You see, the man who has been thus far guided in matters of Love, who has beheld beautiful things in the right order and correctly, is coming now to the goal of Loving: all of a sudden he will catch sight of something wonderfully beautiful in its nature...

Estrangeiro - Ora, errar nada mais é do que se desviar do seu caminho a alma, quando intenta alcançar a verdade, sem passar ao lado dela o entendimento.

What I do not know, I don't think I do.

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.

For the rhapsode ought to interpret the mind of the poet to his hearers, but how can he interpret him well unless he knows what he means?

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.

You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation.

Conocí desde luego que no es la sabiduría la que guía a los poetas, sino ciertos movimientos de la naturaleza y un entusiasmo semejante al de los profetas y adivinos; que todos dicen muy buenas cosas, sin comprender nada de lo que dicen.

La vista del entendimiento, ten por cierto, empieza a ver adecuadamente cuando la de los ojos comienza a perder su fuerza, y tú todavía estás lejos de eso.

Any one who has common sense will remember that the bewilderments of the eyes are of two kinds, and arise from two causes, either from coming out of the light or from going into the light Plato Allegory of the Cave

Ogni problema ha tre soluzioni: la mia soluzione, la tua soluzione, e la soluzione giusta.

It is well for one to know more than he says

Knowledge has three degrees--opinion, science, illumination. The means or instrument of the first is sense; of the second, logic; of the third, insight.

To see the supreme which is also the means to the vision; for that which illuminates the Soul id that which is to see.