"Wisest is he who knows what he..." - Quote by Plato
Wisest is he who knows what he does not know.
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“He is unworthy of the name of man who is ignorant of the fact that the diagonal of a square is incommensurable with its side.”
“A work well begun is half-ended.”
“Is it not the excess and greed of this and the neglect of all other things that revolutionizes this constitution too and prepares the way for the necessity of a dictatorship?”
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“Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.”
“I am old, yet I look at wise men and see that I am very young. I look over those stars yonder, and into the myriads of the aspirant and ordered souls, and see I am a stranger and a youth and have yet my spurs to win. Too ridiculous are these airs of age.”
“Everything has its limit - iron ore cannot be educated into gold.”
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“I try to read as much as I can. I try to read an informative article every day. I try to stay read up on our world issues.”
“Furnished as all Europe now is with Academies of Science, with nice instruments and the spirit of experiment, the progress of human knowledge will be rapid and discoveries made of which we have at present no conception. I begin to be almost sorry I was born so soon, since I cannot have the happiness of knowing what will be known a hundred years hence.”
“Women have millions of years of genetically-enc oded intelligences, intuitions, capacities, knowledges, powers, and cellular knowings of exactly what to do with the infant.”