Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.
Plato
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CHRISTIAN NEVELL BOVEE To be innocent is to be not guilty; but to be virtuous is to overcome our evil inclinations.
WILLIAM PENN To be innocent is to be not guilty; but to be virtuous is to overcome our evil inclinations
WILLIAM PENN Your aim will be knowledge and wisdom, not the reflected glamour of fame.
ABBOTT L. LOWELL The great aim of education is not knowledge, but action
HERBERT SPENCER The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.
HERBERT SPENCER Knowledge is power. Power to do evil...or power to do good. Power itself is not evil. So knowledge i...
VERONICA ROTH First impressions I say , if not socially accepted becomes or is seen as evil.
MUCOR DEDALIV RALUI The aim of education is the knowledge, not the facts, but of values.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS If they exert it not for good, they will for evil; if they advance not knowledge, they will perpetua...
FRANCES WRIGHT The aim of education is the knowledge not of fact, but of values.
DEAN WILLIAM R. INGE The aim of education is the knowledge, not of facts, but of values.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS The aim of education is the knowledge not of facts but of values.
WILLIAM RALPH INGE The aim of medicine is surely not to make men virtuous; it is to safeguard and rescue them from the ...
HENRY LOUIS MENCKEN If four things are followed - having a great aim, acquiring knowledge, hard work, and perseverance -...
A. P. J. ABDUL KALAM The virtuous obtain Truth; they give up their desires for evil and corruption.
SRI GURU GRANTH SAHIB By portraying war as an opportunity for virtuous acts, the politicians romanticize evil.
SHELDON RICHMAN Reading Plato should be easy; understanding Plato can be difficult.
ROBIN A.H. WATERFIELD Good at the wrong place and time becomes evil; evil in the right place and time becomes good.
BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA Evil people you never forget them. And that's the aim of any actress-never to be forgotten.
BETTE DAVIS The person who is basically evil by nature will always be averse to virtuous deeds. He is always eng...
SAM VEDA Plato divinely calls pleasure the bait of evil, inasmuch as men
are caught by it as fish by a hook....
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) Power corrupts. Knowledge is power. Study hard. Be evil.
H. JACKSON BROWN, JR. Power corrupts. Knowledge is power. Study hard. Be evil.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Power corrupts. Knowledge is power. Study hard. Be evil.
DOUGLAS ADAMS Power corrupts. Knowledge is power. Study hard. Be evil.
BERTOLT BRECHT Power corrupts. Knowledge is power. Study hard. Be evil.
SAMUEL JOHNSON Knowledge is power, power corrupts. Study hard, be evil.
ANONYMOUS Do not have evil-doers for friends, do not have low people for friends: have virtuous people for fri...
DHAMMAPADA Do not have evil-doers for friends, do not have low people for friends: have virtuous people for fri...
GEORGE SANTAYANA Evil becomes good to the conscience that is immuned to evil.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Hygiene is the corruption of medicine by morality. It is impossible to find a hygienist who does not...
H. L. MENCKEN Plato says that the unexamined life is not worth living. But what if the examined life turns out to ...
KURT VONNEGUT JR. I thought to myself: I am wiser than this man; neither of us probably knows anything that is really ...
PLATO But when we crave power over life—endless wealth, unassailable safety, immortality—then desire b...
URSULA K. LE GUIN We should aim high, but not be disappointed if we don't achieve it.
MAYOR HELEN KLANDERUD Property is not the sacred right. When a rich man becomes poor it is a misfortune, it is not a moral...
LORD ACTON You may be more happy than Princes, if you will be more virtuous.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Evil exists to glorify the good. Evil is negative good. It is a relative term. Evil can be transmute...
MENCIUS Wisdom we know is the knowledge of good and evil -- not the strength to choose between the two.
JOHN CHEEVER The knowledge of Evil brings you near to God.
ABHIJIT TRIPATHI For those whose wit becomes the mother of villainy, those it educates to be evil in all things.
SOPHOCLES Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil.
THOMAS MANN The principle office of history I take to be this: to prevent virtuous actions from being forgotten,...
PUBLIUS CORNELIUS TACITUS Vivisection is a social evil because if it advances human knowledge, it does so at the expense of hu...
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW Herodotus, Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle all claimed that they knew nothing and so I guess I know e...
GEORGE OTERO Plato said that we are trapped inside a cave and know the world only through the shadows it casts on...
STEVEN PINKER No civilization, including Plato's, has ever been destroyed because its citizens learned too much.
ROBERT MCKEE If you seek money, be wise; if you seek power, be strong; if you seek honor, be virtuous; if you see...
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO The aim, if reached or not, makes great the life: Try to be Shakespeare, leave the rest to fate!
ROBERT BROWNING Many wish not so much to be virtuous, as to seem to be
MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO Knowledge can always be used for good and evil, but to deny it altogether is the ultimate sin
DANIELLE TORGERSEN I think that modern physics has definitely decided in favor of WERNER HEISENBERG It occurs to me it is not so much the aim of the devil to lure me with evil as it is to preoccupy me...
DONALD MILLER The only good is knowledge, and the only evil is ignorance.
HERODOTUS The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.
SOCRATES The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.
SOCRATES Is there anything science should not try to explain? Science is knowledge and knowledge is power - p...
PAUL DAVIES Aim for the chopping block. If you aim for the wood, you will have nothing. Aim past the wood, aim t...
ANNIE DILLARD Your knowledge is not a substitute for your passion. No matter how knowledgeable you are, when lazin...
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR It is interesting that it is not the getting of any sort of knowledge that God has forbidden, but, s...
CARL SAGAN A good archer is not known by his arrows but his aim
THOMAS FULLER People are not taught to be really virtuous, but to behave properly.
KAKUZō OKAKURA Although modesty is natural to man, it is not natural to children. Modesty only begins with the know...
JEAN JACQUES ROUSSEAU Although modesty is natural to man, it is not natural to children. Modesty only begins with the know...
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BENJAMIN JOWETT Socrates: Have you noticed on our journey how often the citizens of this new land remind each other ...
E.A. BUCCHIANERI Evil being the root of mystery, pain is the root of knowledge.
SIMONE WEIL If you can think–and not make thoughts your aim.
RUDYARD KIPLING The blessing of knowledge becomes a curse when we pervert it.
BILLY GRAHAM Do not aim low, you will miss the mark. Aim high and you will be on a threshold of bliss.
B.K.S. IYENGAR There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance
SOCRATES There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance.
SOCRATES The whole thing becomes like this evil enchantment from a fairy tale, but you're made to believe the...
JESS C. SCOTT Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it? If not, we should be sincere enough to admit that we l...
MAHATMA GANDHI By selling more stock, stores can increase their volume and use the extra buying power to negotiate ...
KARL MCKEEVER Stay away from evil deeds and indulge in virtuous ones, surrender totally to the will of God. A man,...
ATHARVA VEDA The idea that there’s good and evil knowledge . . . well, that’s strictly a religious point of v...
DEAN KOONTZ It is true that every day has its own evil, and its good too. But how difficult must life be, especi...
VINCENT VAN GOGH Aim not for the target.
Aim to hit the target.
KHANG KIJARRO NGUYEN This is the paradox of historical knowledge. Knowledge that does not change behaviour is useless. Bu...
YUVAL NOAH HARARI There is only one good -- knowledge; and only one evil -- ignorance.
SOCRATES Little evil would be done in the world if evil never could be done in the name of good.
MARIE VON EBNER-ESCHENBACH Better have failed in the high aim, as I,
Than vulgarly in the low aim succeed
As, God be than...
ROBERT BROWNING Better have failed in the high aim, as I, Than vulgarly in the low aim succeed, As God be thanked! I...
ROBERT BROWNING My mind was formed by studying philosophy, WERNER HEISENBERG Be virtuous and you will be eccentric.
MARK TWAIN Let it be virtuous to be obstinate.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE If you are not shooting for the moon, you need to adjust your aim
TONY UMAñA The aim here is not to separate fact from fantasy but to show how each embodies a distinct class of ...
CONSTANCE PENLEY The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a...
ALFRED NORTH WHITEHEAD The base emotions Plato banned have left a radio-active and not radiant land.
LIBBY HOUSTON Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU Those who have no knowledge are often willing to occupy influential positions with the aim of acquir...
ERALDO BANOVAC Authority is essential to society, but what we called in King Lear "transcendental" authority...
NORTHROP FRYE I do all the evil I can before I learn to shun it? Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it? If ...
MAHATMA GANDHI The man of virtuous soul commands not, nor obeys.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Even if you are not evil, pretend to be. It will put off some abuse
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