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Plato quotes about ignorance

Greek Philosopher

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... when someone sees a soul disturbed and unable to see something, he won't laugh mindlessly, but he'll take into consideration whether it has come from a brighter life and is dimmed through not having yet become accustomed to the dark or whether it has come from greater ignorance into greater light and is dazzled by the increased brillance. Plato
And whenever any one informs us that he has found a man who knows all the arts, and all things else that anybody knows, and every single thing with a higher degree of accuracy than any other man –whoever tells us this, I think that we can only imagine him to be a simple creature who is likely to have been deceived by some wizard or actor whom he met, and whom he thought all-knowing, because he himself was unable to analyze the nature of knowledge and ignorance and imitation. Plato
Similarly with regard to truth, won't we say that a soul is maimed if it hates a voluntary falsehood, cannot endure to have one in itself, and is greatly angered when it exists in others, but is nonetheless content to accept an involuntary falsehood, isn't angry when it is caught being ignorant, and bears its lack of learning easily, wallowing in it like a pig? Plato
For as there are misanthropists, or haters of men, there are also misologists, or haters of ideas, and both spring from the same cause, which is ignorance of the world. Plato
Ignorance of all things is an evil neither terrible nor excessive, nor yet the greatest of all; but great cleverness and much learning, if they be accompanied by a bad training, are a much greater misfortune. Plato
Plato quote: "The learning and knowledge that we have, is, at the most, but..."
The learning and knowledge that we have, is, at the most, but little compared with that of which we are ignorant. Plato
Entire ignorance is not so terrible or extreme an evil, and is far from being the greatest of all; too much cleverness and too much learning, accompanied with ill bringing-up, are far more fatal. Plato
Socrates: This man, on one hand, believes that he knows something, while not knowing [anything]. On the other hand, I? equally ignorant? do not believe [that I know anything]. Plato
Plato quote: "Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance."
Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance. Plato
The rhetorician need not know the truth about things; he has only to discover some way of persuading the ignorant that he has more knowledge than those who know. Plato
Plato quote: "Ignorance, the root and stem of all evil."
Ignorance, the root and stem of all evil. Plato
Plato quote: "Ignorance, the root and stem of every evil."
Ignorance, the root and stem of every evil. Plato
Plato quote: "All I really know is the extent of my own ignorance"
All I really know is the extent of my own ignorance Plato

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