Allan Bloom's Quote - Only Socrates knew, after a lifetime of unceasing labor, that he w

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Only Socrates knew, after a lifetime of unceasing labor, that he w

Only Socrates knew, after a lifetime of unceasing labor, that he was ignorant. Now every high-school student knows that. How did it become so easy? – Allan Bloom

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The spirit is at home, if not entirely satisfied, in America. – Allan Bloom

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Education is the movement from darkness to light. – Allan Bloom

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The real community of man, in the midst of all the self-contraditory simulacra of community, is the community of those who seek the truth, of potential knowers… of all men to the extent that they know. – Allan Bloom

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Ignorance doesnt kill you, but it makes you sweat a lot. – Proverb

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To be clever enough to get all the money, one must be stupid enough to want it. – G. K. Chesterton

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There are two things which cannot be attacked in front: ignorance and narrow-mindedness. They can only be shaken by the simple development of the contrary qualities. They will not bear discussion. – Lord (John Emerich Edward Dalberg) Acton

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A man profits more by the sight of an idiot than by the orations of the learned. – Arabic Proverb

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