Quotes About Knowledge

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.

Las opiniones buenas no son las de los sabios, y las malas las de los necios?

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

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

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.

I know that I know nothing

Always seek wisdom and live a vrituous life.

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

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

The rest of the Dialogue of Critias has been lost.

The fairest music is that which delights the best and best educated.

Always seek wisdom and live a virtuous life.

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.

it seemed to me that this man seemed to be wise, both to many other human beings and most of all to himself, but that he was not. And then I tried to show him that he supposed he was wise, but was not. So from this I became hateful both to him and to many of those present Plato,Apology

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.

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.

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

Even the fragments of his words when 'repeated at second-hand' (Symp.) have in all ages ravished the hearts of men, who have seen reflected in them their own higher nature. He is the father of idealism in philosophy, in politics, in literature. And many of the latest conceptions of modern thinkers and statesmen, such as the unity of knowledge, the reign of law, and the equality of the sexes, have been anticipated in a dream by him.

LACHES: I think that you put the question to him very well, Socrates; and I would like him to say what is the nature of this knowledge or wisdom. NICIAS: I mean to say, Laches, that courage is the knowledge of that which inspires fear or confidence in war, or in anything. LACHES: How strangely he is talking, Socrates.

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

Nothing taught by force stays in the soul.