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“But then,” said I, “do
you think it right to speak as having knowledge about things one does not
know?” “By no means,” he said, “as
having knowledge, but one ought to be willing to tell as his opinion what he
opines.” “Nay,” said I, “have you
not observed that opinions divorced from knowledge1 are ugly
things? The best of them are blind.2 Or do you think that those
who hold some true opinion without intelligence differ appreciably from
blind men who go the right way?” “They do not differ at
all,” he said. “Is it, then, ugly things that you prefer
Plato. Plato in Twelve Volumes, Vols. 5 & 6 translated by Paul Shorey. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1969.
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