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Plato Quotes about Ignorance

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Better to be unborn than untaught, for ignorance is the root of all misfortune.

Better to be unborn than untaught, for ignorance is the root of all misfortune.

Atheist, Ignorance, Roots

Socrates, Plato, Aristotle (1967). “Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study”

Ignorance is the root cause of all difficulties.

Ignorance, Roots, Causes

Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.

Plato, Philosophical, Ignorance

A wise ignorance is an essential part of knowledge.

Wise, Ignorance, Essentials

Complacent ignorance is the most lethal sickness of the soul

Ignorance, Soul, Sickness

All I really know is the extent of my own ignorance

Ignorance, My Own, Knows

Neither do the ignorant love wisdom or desire to become wise; for this is the grievous thing about ignorance, that those who are neither good nor beautiful think they are good enough, and do not desire that which they do not think they are lacking.

Beautiful, Wise, Ignorance

We see many instances of cities going down like sinking ships to their destruction. There have been such wrecks in the past and there surely will be others in the future, caused by the wickedness of captains and crews alike. For these are guilty men, whose sin is supreme ignorance of what matters most.

Ignorance, Past, Men

Plato (1952). “Plato's Statesman”

Herein is the evil of ignorance, that he who is neither good nor wise is nevertheless satisfied with himself: he had no desire for that of which he feels no want.

Wise, Ignorance, Evil

Plato (1977). “The Portable Plato”, p.102, Penguin

To be curious about that which is not one's concern while still in ignorance of oneself is ridiculous.

Ignorance, Curiosity, Ridiculous

And the quality of good judgement is clearly a form of knowledge and skill, as it is because of knowledge and not because of ignorance that we judge well.

Ignorance, Skills, Judging

Between knowledge of what really exists and ignorance of what does not exist lies the domain of opinion. It is more obscure than knowledge, but clearer than ignorance.

Lying, Ignorance, Doe

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, Learning, Ignorance

Socrates, Plato, Aristotle (1967). “Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study”

Ignorance: the root of all evil.

Ignorance, Roots, Evil

Entire ignorance is not so terrible or extreme an evil, and is far from being the greatest of all.

Philosophical, Ignorance, Evil

Plato (2016). “The Complete Works of Plato (Unabridged): From the greatest Greek philosopher, known for The Republic, Symposium, Apology, Phaedrus, Laws, Crito, Phaedo, Timaeus, Meno, Euthyphro, Gorgias, Parmenides, Protagoras, Statesman and Critias”, p.2726, e-artnow (Open Publishing)

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.

Spring, Ignorance, Men

Plato (2010). “The Works of Plato: The Trial and Death of Socrates”, p.231, Cosimo, Inc.

Let no-one ignorant of geometry enter. Said to have been inscribed above the door of Plato's Academy.

Plato, Ignorance, Science

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