The charm of knowledge would be small if so much shame did not have to be overcome on the way to it.
Live in conflict with your equals and with yourselves! Be robbers and conquerors as long as you cannot be rulers and possessors, you seekers of knowledge!
Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not.
He is wisest among you who, like Socrates, knows that his wisdom is in truth worth nothing.
The highest form of knowledge is not to imagine that one knows what one does not know.
To know that which you know, and that which you do not know—this is the true nature of understanding.
He who knows what is right will do what is right, for no one voluntarily chooses that which he knows will harm his own nature.
Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth.
The power of concentration is the only key to the treasure-house of knowledge.
All the knowledge in the world has come from the mind; the infinite library of the universe is in your own mind.
To know, to love, to be, to act—these are the four movements of the soul.
Knowledge without love is cold; love without knowledge is blind.
Do not be ashamed of learning, even from a lower person. Gold is taken even from the filth.
Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world.
Knowledge of the Self is not the creation of something new, but the removal of the veil that hid what was always present.
Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.
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