Quote #65
Ignorance, the root and the stem of every evil.
More from Plato
- The good are not willing to rule either for the sake of money or of honor. They do not wish to collect pay openly for their service of rule…
- Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.
- One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics, is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.
- At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.
- No one is more hated than he who speaks the truth.
- You can learn more about a man in an hour of play, than in a year of conversation.
- The learning and knowledge that we have, is, at the most, but little compared to that of which we are ignorant.
- I would teach the children music, physics and philosophy, but the most important is music, for in the patterns of the arts are the keys to …