Plato Quotes About Ignorance
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Ignorance, the root and the stem of every evil.
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Complacent ignorance is the most lethal sickness of the soul
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Ignorance is the root cause of all difficulties.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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A wise ignorance is an essential part of knowledge.
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To be curious about that which is not one's concern while still in ignorance of oneself is ridiculous.
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Let no-one ignorant of geometry enter. Said to have been inscribed above the door of Plato's Academy.
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All I really know is the extent of my own ignorance
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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.
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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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Entire ignorance is not so terrible or extreme an evil, and is far from being the greatest of all.
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Ignorance: the root of all evil.
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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.
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Better to be unborn than untaught, for ignorance is the root of all misfortune.
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Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.
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