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I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.

Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for.

What is the first business of one who practices philosophy? To throw away self-conceit. For it is impossible for anyone to begin to learn that which he thinks he already knows.

By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.

Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.

A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions—as attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him answers, above all.

The doer alone learneth.

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.

The therapist must at all times be prepared to admit that the patient may be right.

My barrenness of wisdom is no defect, but an invitation for truth to take birth in those who listen.

I only wish that wisdom were of a kind that could flow from that which is full into that which is empty, if we only touched each other.

True understanding begins when one is stripped of the conceit of knowledge.

The soul takes nothing with her to the other world but her education and culture; at the beginning of the journey, this alone helps or harms her.

The soul, being immortal and having been born many times, and having seen all things that exist, has learned all things.

All true learning is nothing other than recollection, the awakening of what the soul already carries within itself.

No man undertakes a trade he has not learned, yet everyone thinks himself qualified for the hardest of all trades—that of living well.

I never lose. I either win or learn.

The more you know, the more you know you don't know.

The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.

An education which should improve this faculty would be the education par excellence.

The desire to appear clever often prevents us from becoming so.

A wise man benefits more from his enemies than a fool from his friends.

Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth.

Experience is the only teacher we have. We may talk and reason all our lives, but we shall not understand a word of truth until we experience it.

A single moment of total concentration can unlock decades of learning.

Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.

It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err.

A mind that is full of conclusions is dead; it cannot learn.

The mind that questions everything is the only mind that truly learns.

Every trial is a silent lesson in divine endurance.