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The soul of him who has education is whole and perfect and escapes the worst disease, but, if a man's education be neglected, he walks lamely through ...more

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The most effective kind of education is that a child should play amongst lovely things.

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Knowledge unqualified is knowledge simply of something learned.

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Ideas are the source of all things

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

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And what, Socrates, is the food of the soul? Surely, I said, knowledge is the food of the soul.

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The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future life

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

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Similarly with regard to truth, won't we say that a soul is maimed if it hates a voluntary falsehood, cannot endure to have one in itself, and is grea...more

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Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

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Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue.

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All learning has an emotional base.

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The learning and knowledge that we have, is, at the most, but little compared with that of which we are ignorant.

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

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Entire ignorance is not so terrible or extreme an evil, and is far from being the greatest of all; too much cleverness and too much learning, accompan...more