Plato

Plato

"Knowledge is true opinion."
186 Quotes
"Knowledge is true opinion."
Plato
"Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind."
Plato
"Knowledge without justice ought to be called cunning rather than wisdom."
Plato
"Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance."
Plato
"Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge."
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"The blame is his who chooses: God is blameless."
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"There will be no end to the troubles of states, or of humanity itself, till philosophers become kings in this world, or till those we now call kings and rulers really and truly become philosophers, and political power and philosophy thus come into the same hands."
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"Twice and thrice over, as they say, good is it to repeat and review what is good."
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"A good decision is based on knowledge and not on numbers."
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"Nothing can be more absurd than the practice that prevails in our country of men and women not following the same pursuits with all their strengths and with one mind, for thus, the state instead of being whole is reduced to half."
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"And what, Socrates, is the food of the soul? Surely, I said, knowledge is the food of the soul."
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"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."
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"I would fain grow old learning many things."
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"We do not learn and what we call learning is only a process of recollection."
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"The learning and knowledge that we have, is, at the most, but little compared with that of which we are ignorant."
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"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."
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"For the introduction of a new kind of music must be shunned as imperiling the whole state since styles of music are never disturbed without affecting the most important political institutions."
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"Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue."
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"Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything."
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"Then not only custom, but also nature affirms that to do is more disgraceful than to suffer injustice, and that justice is equality."
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