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Aristotle (428/427– 348/347 BC), "ALL men by nature desire to know. An indication of this is the delight we take in our senses; for even apart from their usefulness they are loved for themselves; and above all others the sense of sight. For not only with a view to action, but even when we are not going to do anything, we prefer seeing (one might say) to everything else. The reason is that this, most of all the senses, makes us know and brings to light many differences between things." |
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Epictetus (55–135 AD)
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Plato (427-347 BC), "Entire ignorance is not so terrible or extreme an evil, and is far from being the greatest of all; too much cleverness and too much learning, accompanied with ill bringing-up, are far more fatal." |
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Socrates (469-399 BC), "There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance." |
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Thales (624 BC–546 BC) "Time is the wisest because it discovers everything” |
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