6 Plato Quotes on Knowledge

Plato quotes on knowledge

3. Then the case is the same in all the other arts for the orator and his rhetoric; there is no need to know the truth of the actual matters, but one merely needs to have discovered some device of persuasion which will make one appear to those who do not know to know better than those who know.

33. The judge should not be young; he should have learned to know evil, not from his own soul, but from late and long observation of the nature of evil in others: knowledge should be his guide, not personal experience.

46. The tools which would teach men their own use would be beyond price.

59. There is only one good, which is knowledge, and one evil, which is ignorance.

61. The learning and knowledge that we have, is, at the most, but little compared to that of which we are ignorant.

65. Ignorance, the root and the stem of every evil.