"Better to be unborn than untaught, for..." - Quote by Plato
Better to be unborn than untaught, for ignorance is the root of all misfortune.
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“To conquer oneself is the best and noblest victory; to be vanquished by one's own nature is the worst and most ignoble defeat.”
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“In a democracy, we have always had to worry about the ignorance of the uneducated. Today we have to worry about the ignorance of people with college degrees.”
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“He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.”
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“If you're not failing, you're probably not really moving forward.”