Quote

All I really know is the extent of my own ignorance

Plato

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Plato
Epigrammatist
Philosopher
Poet
Ancient Athens
Platon
Aristocles
Extent
Ignorance
Really

More quotes by Plato

Image
For the rhapsode ought to interpret the mind of the poet to his hearers, but how can he interpret him well unless he knows what he means?
Plato
Image
Wine fills the heart with courage.
Plato
Image
Those who intend on becoming great should love neither themselves or their own things, but only what is just, whether it happens to be done by themselves or others.
Plato
Image
When there is crime in society, there is no justice.
Plato
Image
The music masters familiarize children's minds with rhythms and melodies, thus making them more civilized, more balanced, better adjusted in themselves, and more capable in whatever they say or do, for rhythm and harmony are essential to the whole of life.
Plato
Image
People too smart to get involved in politics are doomed to live in societies run by people who aren't.
Plato
Image
Then not only custom, but also nature affirms that to do is more disgraceful than to suffer injustice, and that justice is equality.
Plato
Image
Books are immortal sons deifying their sires.
Plato
Image
Mob rule and emasculation of the wise' and 'who will watch the guardians'?
Plato
Image
Better to be unborn than untaught, for ignorance is the root of all misfortune.
Plato
Image
You cannot conceive the many without the one...The study of the unit is among those that lead the mind on and turn it to the vision of reality.
Plato
Image
When a Benefit is wrongly conferred, the author of the Benefit may often be said to injure.
Plato
Image
To think truly is noble and to be deceived is base.
Plato
Image
Just as things in a picture, when viewed from a distance, appear to be all in one and the same condition and alike.
Plato
Image
Any city, however small, is in fact divided into two, one the city of the poor, the other of the rich these are at war with one another.
Plato
Image
Philosophy is an elegant thing, if anyone modestly meddles with it but if they are conversant with it more than is becoming, it corrupts them.
Plato
Image
Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber.
Plato
Image
Whence comes war and fighting, and factions? Whence but from the body and the lust of the body? Wars are occasioned by the love of money, and money has to be acquired for the same and service of the body.
Plato
Image
For good nurture and education implant good constitutions.
Plato
Image
No one is so cowardly that Love could not inspire him to heroism.
Plato