Plato Quotes

As precious as knowledge itself is the learning. As precious as any reward is the earning.

Knowledge, a rude unprofitable mass, the mere materials with which wisdom builds, till smoothed and squared and fitted to its place, does but encumber whom it seems to enrich. Knowledge is proud that he has learned so much; wisdom is humble that he knows no more.

All knowledge is worth having

I and my colleagues here have been engaged in the pursuit of knowledge.

Honey is sweet, "and so is knowledge, but knowledge is like the bee that made that sweet honey, you have to chase it through the pages of a book." (taken from "Thank you, Mr. Falker" )

All wish to be learned, but no one is willing to pay the price.

Man is essentially ignorant, and becomes learned through acquiring knowledge.

I hope I continue to learn more. It's a lot to learn.

Learning is more than absorbing facts, it is acquiring understanding.

One thing I've learned: you can know anything, it's all there, you just have to find it.

Knowledge of any value can't be given. It must be sought and earned

It is a nuisance that knowledge can only be acquired by hard work.

All knowledge is good. It is impossible to say any fragment of knowledge, however insignificant or remote from one's ordinary pursuits, may not some day be turned to account.

Man lives only to learn. And if he learns it is because it is the nature of his lot, for good or bad.

Abstract knowledge is always useful, sooner or later.

Knowledge is a thing that one cannot have enough of. It is the fruit of wisdom, to be eaten carefully and digested fully, unlike that lunch you are bolting down, little friend.

Education is that human process of feeling your body mature, feeding your mind with ideas that it never had before, or information you never had. You simply cannot do that on a computer.

There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be paid heavily for their acquiring.

Every path to a new understanding begins in confusion.

It is clearly absurd to limit the term 'education' to a person's formal schooling.

I'm doing something now where I'm going to have to learn so much and that takes time nurturing, those kinds of relationships.

Every step by which men add to their knowledge and skills is a step also by which they can control other men.

Is it not in the struggle to obtain knowledge that happiness exists? I am very ignorant, consequently the conditions of happiness are mine.

Education. Experience. Or are they the same thing?

Acquiring knowledge is a form of imitation.