Socrates Quotes on Learning
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When I left him, I reasoned thus with myself: I am wiser than this man, for neither of us appears to know anything great and good; but he fancies he knows something, although he knows nothing; whereas I, as I do not know anything, so I do not fancy I do. In this trifling particular, then, I appear to be wiser than he, because I do not fancy I know what I do not know.
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Really, Ischomachus, I am disposed to ask: 'Does teaching consist in putting questions?' Indeed, the secret of your system has just this instant dawned upon me. I seem to see the principle in which you put your questions. You lead me through the field of my own knowledge, and then by pointing out analogies to what I know, persuade me that I really know some things which hitherto, as I believed, I had no knowledge of.
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There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance.
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An education obtained with money is worse than no education at all.
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Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.
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Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.
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I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
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Philosophy begins with wonder.
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The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
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True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.
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Wisdom begins in wonder.