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Knowledge unqualified is knowledge simply of something learned.

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In politics we presume that everyone who knows how to get votes knows how to administer a city or a state. When we are ill... we do not ask for the ha...more

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There will be no end to the troubles of states, or of humanity itself, till philosophers become kings in this world, or till those we now call kings a...more

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Philosophy is the highest music.

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Ideas are the source of all things

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False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.

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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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Time is the moving image of eternity.

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

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Is it not true that the clever rogue is like the runner who runs well for the first half of the course, but flags before reaching the goal: he is quic...more

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Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

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Then the lover, who is true and no counterfeit, must of necessity be loved by his love.

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One of the penalties of refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.

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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.