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"Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body; but knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind." -
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Top 5 quotes from Plato
"No human thing is of serious importance."
"There are three arts which are concerned with all things: one which uses, another which makes, and a third which imitates them."
"A tyrant is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader."
"Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something."
"False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil."
Top 5 quotes from Knowledge
"One thing only I know, and that is that I know nothing."
"Information is not knowledge."
"I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me."
"There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance."
"If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants."
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