(...) The Statesman
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501 Intro|           based on some experience and wisdom. Hence the wiser course
502 Intro|           words, you will be richer in wisdom as you grow older.’ A similar
503 Intro|               they had depended on the wisdom of their rulers. The mingled
504 Intro|            with the legislator who has wisdom: he regards this as the
505 Intro|            greatest power, the highest wisdom, can only proceed one or
506 Intro|           Christian to think of God as wisdom, truth, holiness, and also
507 Intro|            difficulty of combining the wisdom of the few with the power
508 Intro|           imperfection of law with the wisdom of the perfect ruler.~Laws
509 Text |              will be all the richer in wisdom when you are an old man.
510 Text |             experience to the store of wisdom, there would be no difficulty
511 Text |         portion of truth and to attain wisdom?~YOUNG SOCRATES: Hardly.~
512 Text |              according to the rules of wisdom and justice, and use their
513 Text |             rule supposing him to have wisdom and royal power. Do you
514 Text |               long experience, and the wisdom of counsellors who have


The Symposium
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515 Intro|             for the sake of virtue and wisdom is permitted among us; and
516 Intro|           children, but conceptions of wisdom and virtue, such as poets
517 Intro|                creations of virtue and wisdom, and be the friend of God
518 Intro|                of receiving lessons of wisdom. He narrates the failure
519 Intro|           truth.’ In both the lover of wisdom is the ‘spectator of all
520 Text |                as he was desired, that wisdom could be infused by touch,
521 Text |               me full with a stream of wisdom plenteous and fair; whereas
522 Text |              who bears off the palm of wisdom—of this Dionysus shall be
523 Text |              improved by him either in wisdom, or in some other particular
524 Text |               capable of communicating wisdom and virtue, the other seeking
525 Text |                a view to education and wisdom, when the two laws of love
526 Text |               have yet to speak of his wisdom; and according to the measure
527 Text |               not all the works of his wisdom, born and begotten of him?
528 Text |                there is a mean between wisdom and ignorance?’ ‘And what
529 Text |             mean between ignorance and wisdom.’ ‘Quite true,’ I replied. ‘
530 Text |             asleep, is carried on. The wisdom which understands this is
531 Text |                is spiritual; all other wisdom, such as that of arts and
532 Text |                 keen in the pursuit of wisdom, fertile in resources; a
533 Text |            philosopher or seeker after wisdom, for he is wise already;
534 Text |             man who is wise seek after wisdom. Neither do the ignorant
535 Text |                the ignorant seek after wisdom. For herein is the evil
536 Text |               said, ‘are the lovers of wisdom, if they are neither the
537 Text |               Love is one of them. For wisdom is a most beautiful thing,
538 Text |                philosopher or lover of wisdom, and being a lover of wisdom
539 Text |           wisdom, and being a lover of wisdom is in a mean between the
540 Text |              not have wondered at your wisdom, neither should I have come
541 Text |            what are these conceptions?—wisdom and virtue in general. And
542 Text |           greatest and fairest sort of wisdom by far is that which is
543 Text |           notions in boundless love of wisdom; until on that shore he
544 Text |          passion in your longing after wisdom. Therefore listen and excuse
545 Text |            with a man such as he is in wisdom and endurance. And therefore


Theaetetus
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546 Intro|               his real and his assumed wisdom. No one is the superior
547 Intro|               specimens of other men’s wisdom, because I have no wisdom
548 Intro|              wisdom, because I have no wisdom of my own, and I want to
549 Intro|          wondering at his incomparable wisdom, he gets you into his power,
550 Intro|                I deny the existence of wisdom or of the wise man. But
551 Intro|               man. But I maintain that wisdom is a practical remedial
552 Intro|               who is their superior in wisdom as if he were a god. And
553 Intro|             righteous. To know this is wisdom; and in comparison of this
554 Intro|              in comparison of this the wisdom of the arts or the seeming
555 Intro|                the arts or the seeming wisdom of politicians is mean and
556 Intro|               revealed by the superior wisdom of a later generation, and
557 Intro|                and (2) remarks full of wisdom, (3) also germs of a metaphysic
558 Intro|               vague conceptions of the wisdom of the past as are inseparable
559 Text |               he praises the virtue or wisdom which are the mental endowments
560 Text |               course.~SOCRATES: And by wisdom the wise are wise?~THEAETETUS:
561 Text |            THEAETETUS: What?~SOCRATES: Wisdom; are not men wise in that
562 Text |               they are.~SOCRATES: Then wisdom and knowledge are the same?~
563 Text |               to extract them from the wisdom of another, and to receive
564 Text |     reverencing him like a God for his wisdom he was no better than a
565 Text |              preferred to the place of wisdom and instruction, and deserve
566 Text |              is the measure of his own wisdom? Must he not be talking ‘
567 Text |             envy and admiration of his wisdom, he would have got you into
568 Text |                am far from saying that wisdom and the wise man have no
569 Text |              to it; but the teacher of wisdom causes the good to take
570 Text |                equal and sufficient in wisdom; although he admitted that
571 Text |             implied that ignorance and wisdom exist among them, at least
572 Text |               Certainly.~SOCRATES: And wisdom is assumed by them to be
573 Text |              as he thinks, a master in wisdom. Such is the lawyer, Theodorus.
574 Text |               For to know this is true wisdom and virtue, and ignorance
575 Text |               vice. All other kinds of wisdom or cleverness, which seem
576 Text |           which seem only, such as the wisdom of politicians, or the wisdom
577 Text |          wisdom of politicians, or the wisdom of the arts, are coarse
578 Text |          ancients, who concealed their wisdom from the many in poetical
579 Text |             moderns, in their superior wisdom, have declared the same


Timaeus
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580 Intro|             Ghost, or had received his wisdom from Moses, they seemed
581 Intro|             law took in the pursuit of wisdom, searching out the deep
582 Intro|           which may be compared to the wisdom of God in the book of Ecclesiasticus,
583 Text |               first to you. Then as to wisdom, do you observe how our
584 Text |               lover both of war and of wisdom, selected and first of all
585 Text |               of divination not to the wisdom, but to the foolishness
586 Text |            head was added, having more wisdom and sensation than the rest
587 Text |                of the body, and one of wisdom for the sake of the diviner
588 Text |               of knowledge and of true wisdom, and has exercised his intellect
589 Text |          changing as they lose or gain wisdom and folly.~We may now say