Quotes About Knowledge

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.

Así, pues, lo lleno de cosas más reales y que es más real en sí mismo, ¿está más realmente lleno que lo lleno de cosas menos reales y que es además menos real en sí mismo?

So in the first place, such things show clearly that the philosopher more than other men frees the soul from association with the body as much as possible?

Ich weiß, dass ich nicht weiß".

And the same will be true of the orator and the oratory in relation to all other arts. The orator need have no knowledge of the truth about thongs; it is enough for him to have discovered a knack of persuading the ignorant that he seems to know more than the experts.

not to be learned; for all knowledge appears

all started at the Temple of Apollo In Delphi. One of his friends approached the oracle with the question: "Is anyone wiser than Socrates?" the answer was "No." Socrates was profoundly puzzled by this episode. He claimed to know

Self-love is the source of that ignorant conceit of knowledge which is always doing and never succeeding.

For the uneducated, when they engage in argument about anything, give no thought to the truth about the subject of discussion but are only eager that those present will accept the position they have set forth. I differ from them only to this extent: I shall not be eager to get the agreement of those present that what I say is true, except incidentally, but I shall be very eager that I should myself be thoroughly convinced that things are so.

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, which is true of the mind's eye, quite as much as of the bodily eye;

for the uneducated, when they engage in argument about anything, give no thought to the truth about the subject of discussion but are only eager that those present will accept the position they have set forth.

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

Herein is the evil of ignorance , that he who is neither good nor wise is nevertheless satisfied with himself : he has no desire for that of which he feels no want .

It is the duty of us, the founders, then, said I, to compel the best natures to attain the knowledge which we pronounced the greatest, and to win to the vision of good, to scale the ascent, and when they have reached the heights and taken an adequate view, we must not allow what is now permitted. What is that? That they should linger there, I said, and refuse to go down again among those bondsmen and share their labors and honors, whether they are of less or of greater worth.

And poets do really know the things about which they seem to the many to speak so well?

What about someone who believes in beautiful things but doesn't believe in the beautiful itself and isn't able to follow anyone who could lead him to the knowledge of it? Don't you think he is living in a dream rather than a wakened state? Isn't this dreaming: whether asleep or awake, to think that a likeness is not a likeness but rather the thing itself that it is like?

wise men talk because they have something to say fools talk because they have to say something

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.

Both knowledge and truth are beautiful things, but the good is other and more beautiful than they.

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Por tanto, ven tanto, de los que perciben muchas cosas bellas, pero no ven lo bello en sí ni pueden seguir a otro que a ello los conduzca y asimismo ven muchas cosas justas, pero no lo justo en sí, y de igual manera todo lo demás, diremos que opinan de todo, pero que no conocen nada de aquello sobre qué opinan.