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" Theatetus, you have, or wish to have, any more embryo thoughts, they will be all the better for the present investigation, and if you have none, you will be soberer and humbler and gentler to other men, not fancying that you know what you do not know. "
The Dedicated Life: An Address Delivered to the Students of the University ... - Page 20
by Richard Burdon Haldane Haldane (Viscount) - 1907 - 29 pages
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Gorgias. Philebus. Parmenides. Theaetetus. Sophist. Statesman

Plato - 1871 - 586 pages
...offspring of your brain are not worth bringing up ? Theaet. Very true. Soc. But if, Theaetetus, you have or wish to have any more embryo thoughts, they will be...none, you will be soberer and humbler and gentler (o other men, not fancying that you know what you do not know. These are the limits of my art ; I can...
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The Dialogues of Plato, Volume 4

Plato - 1875 - 614 pages
...you chance to conceive again, you will be all the better for the present investigation, and if not, you will be soberer and humbler and gentler to other...men, not fancying that you know what you do not know. These are the limits of my art ; I can no further go, nor do I know aught of the things which great...
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The New Englander, Volume 34

1875 - 822 pages
...remaining embryo thoughts, they will be all the better for the preceding investigation, and if not, he " will be soberer and humbler and gentler to other men, not fancying that he knows what he does not know." If we turn now, for a moment, to the Sophist, we find Plato addressing...
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New Englander and Yale Review, Volume 34

Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight - 1875 - 810 pages
...remaining embryo thoughts, they will be all the better for the preceding investigation, and if not, he " will be soberer and humbler and gentler to other men, not fancying that he knows what he does not know." If we turn now, for a moment, to the Sophist, we find Plato addressing...
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Education & Empire: Addresses on Certain Topics of the Day

Richard Burdon Haldane Haldane (Viscount) - 1902 - 260 pages
...of the words in which Plato makes Socrates conclude a famous dialogue: " If, Theaetetus, you have or wish to have any more embryo thoughts, they will be...not fancying that you know what you do not know." INDEX Achilles and the tortoise, 173Alsace, 2. Aniline colours, 22-4. Aristotle, 31, 194. Arnold, Matthew,...
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The Ethics of the Greek Philosophers, Socrates, Plato and Aristotle: A ...

James Hervey Hyslop - 1903 - 502 pages
...of your brain are not worth bringing up ? "THEAET. Very true. " Soc. But if, Theatetus, you have, or wish to have, any more embryo thoughts, they will...men, not fancying that you know what you do not know. These are the limits of my art ; I can no further go, nor do I know aught of the things which great...
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The Pathway to Reality: Being the Gifford Lectures Delivered in ..., Volume 1

Richard Burdon Haldane Haldane (Viscount) - 1903 - 344 pages
...have any more embryo thoughts, you will be all the better for the present investigation, and, if not, you will be soberer and humbler and gentler to other...not fancying that you know what you do not know." We may take to ourselves the words which Plato makes Socrates address to his pupil after leading him...
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The Theory of Light: A Treatise on Physical Optics, Volume 1

Richard Cockburn Maclaurin - 1908 - 344 pages
...have any more embryo thoughts, you will be all the better for the present investigation and, if not, you will be soberer and humbler and gentler to other...not fancying that you know what you do not know." — PLATO. " WHAT is the chief end of science ? " should be the first question in the catechism of...
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The Theory of Light: A Treatise on Physical Optics, Part 1

Richard Cockburn Maclaurin - 1908 - 344 pages
...have any more embryo thoughts, you will be all the better for the present investigation and, if not, you will be soberer and humbler and gentler to other men, not fancying that you know what yon do not know." — PLATO. " WHAT is the chief end of science ? " should be the first question in...
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The Growth of the British Empire, Book V of the Story of the World

M. B. Synge - 2013 - 265 pages
...secured for all. True education does not make a man proud : rather, as Plato remarked long years ago, "You will be soberer and humbler and gentler to other men, not fancying you know what you do not know." It fits a man for the battle of life, for when school-days are done,...
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