"Knowledge unqualified is knowledge simply of something learned.












More Plato quotes
"Ideas are the source of all things
"And what, Socrates, is the food of the soul? Surely, I said, knowledge is the food of the soul.
"A good decision is based on knowledge and not on numbers.
"Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.
"The learning and knowledge that we have, is, at the most, but little compared with that of which we are ignorant.
"Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
"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, accompan...
"Knowledge is the food of the soul.
"I thought to myself: I am wiser than this man; neither of us probably knows anything that is really good, but he thinks he has knowledge, when he has ...
"Socrates: This man, on one hand, believes that he knows something, while not knowing [anything]. On the other hand, I – equally ignorant – do not beli...
"The reason is that they utter these words of theirs not by virtue of a skill, but by a divine power - otherwise, if they knew how to speak well on one...
"Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body; but knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.
"And whenever any one informs us that he has found a man who knows all the arts, and all things else that anybody knows, and every single thing with a ...
"Either we shall find what it is we are seeking or at least we shall free ourselves from the persuasion that we know what we do not know.