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Ignorance of all things is an evil neither terrible nor excessive, nor yet the greatest of all but great cleverness and much learning, if they be accompanied by a bad training, are a much greater misfortune.
We do not learn and what we call learning is only a process of recollection.
Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.
Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.
Knowledge is true opinion.
Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.
And what, Socrates, is the food of the soul? Surely, I said, knowledge is the food of the soul.
Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.
Thinking: the talking of the soul with itself.
The rulers of the state are the only persons who ought to have the privilege of lying, either at home or abroad they may be allowed to lie for the good of the state.