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plato ignorance opinion
Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance. Plato
plato years brooklyn
When I was 15 years old, or 16, I carried around on the streets of Brooklyn a paperback copy of Plato's Republic, front cover facing outward. I had read only some of it and understood less, but I was excited by it and knew it was something wonderful. Robert Nozick
plato eye vision
The weight of the world is on our shoulders, its vision is through our eyes; if we blink or look aside, or turn back to finger what Plato said or remember Napoleon and his conquests, we inflict on the world the injury of some obliquity. This is life… Virginia Woolf
plato men average
There is thus a certain plausibility to Nietzsche's doctrine, though it is dynamite. He maintains in effect that the gulf separating Plato from the average man is greater than the cleft between the average man and a chimpanzee. Walter Kaufmann
plato inspiration thinking
How will you go about finding that thing the nature of which is totally unknown to you?" (Plato) The things we want are transformative, and we don’t know or only think we know what is on the other side of that transformation. Love, wisdom, grace, inspiration- how do you go about finding these things that are in some ways about extending the boundaries of the self into unknown territory, about becoming someone else? Rebecca Solnit
plato swans style
Xenophon wrote with a swan's quill, Plato with a pen of gold, and Thucydides with a brazen stylus. Joseph Joubert
plato circles bottles
Without a bottle to hold, I feel incomplete, the way Plato says we are each born only half a circle, and we spend out lives seeking out our other half. A drink is my beloved. Without it, I am wanting; I feel half finished. Koren Zailckas
plato men evil
Plato divinely calls pleasure the bait of evil, inasmuch as men are caught by it as fish by a hook. Marcus Tullius Cicero
plato men errors
By Hercules! I prefer to err with Plato, whom I know how much you value, than to be right in the company of such men.
ignorant contradiction mathematics
Do not mathematics and all sciences seem full of contradictions and impossibilities to the ignorant, which are all resolved and cleared to those that understand them? Richard Baxter
ignorant unnecessary christianity
We are ignorant of things necessary, because we learn things superfluous and unnecessary
ignorant age television
I definitely have to admit that I am fairly ignorant, not just to 'Tron,' but almost any pop culture thing that I should know, at my age. I grew up without a television and rarely got to see a movie, so I didn't really see any of that stuff, and I haven't been able to catch up since. Tricia Helfer
ignorant wish lasts
There is an ancient script that says, 'He that wishes to be ignorant, let him be ignorant.' But I took off the last word and it now reads for me like this: He that wishes to be ignorant, let him be! Jim Rohn
ignorant scriptures superior versed
A Brahmin well versed in the scriptures is undoubtedly superior to an ignorant person. Rig Veda
ignorant half earth
I know that the blacks, take them half enlightened and ignorant, are more humane and merciful than the most enlightened and refined European that can be found in all the earth. David Walker
ignorant foe
An ignorant friend is worse than a learned foe. Brian Herbert
ignorant
I like blues but it is music I am too ignorant to understand. Barry Gibb
ignorant desire way
Love points the way. Desire is its ignorant advisor. Elfriede Jelinek
mathematics unlimited
More and more I'm aware that the permutations are not unlimited. Russell Hoban
mathematics metaphysics
Mathematics is the only true metaphysics. Lord Kelvin
mathematics precise
Tout ce qu'on invente est vrai, soi-en sure. La poesie est une chose aussi precise que la geometrie. Gustave Flaubert
mathematics relation concerned
Mathematics is concerned only with the enumeration and comparison of relations. Carl Friedrich Gauss
mathematics accepted results
... a result once generally accepted by mathematicians is seldom retracted, and then only with great pangs. The Nature of Mathematics Max Black
mathematics mathematician mathematical
Mathemata mathematicis scribuntur Mathematics is written for mathematicians De Revolutionibus Nicolaus Copernicus
mathematics mathematician mathematical
Mathematics is written for mathematicians.
mathematics program trouble tutor
If any of them that come through the program are having trouble in math, I'll tutor them. (Teaching) is the most important thing I do. William Booth
mathematics
QED - Quod erat demonstrandum.