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[155e] to search out the hidden truth of the thought of a famous man or, I should say, of famous men?

Theaetetus
Of course I shall be grateful, very grateful.

Socrates
Look round and see that none of the uninitiated is listening. The uninitiated are those who think nothing is except what they can grasp firmly with their hands, and who deny the existence of actions and generation and all that is invisible.

Theaetetus
Truly, Socrates, those you speak of are very stubborn


Plato. Plato in Twelve Volumes, Vol. 12 translated by Harold N. Fowler. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1921.

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