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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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Any notion of the serious life of leisure, as well as mens taste and capacity to live it, has disappeared. Leisure has become entertainment. – Allan Bloom

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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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I am not ashamed to confess I am ignorant of what I do not know. – Marcus Tullius Cicero

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