Plato Quotes About Knowledge

Quotes about: Knowledge

• A good decision is based on knowledge, and not on numbers.

  Plato

  Wisdom, Plato, Business

  Plato (1871). “The Dialogues of Plato”, p.83

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

  Plato

  Inspirational, Philosophical, Knowledge

  Socrates, Plato, Aristotle (1967). “Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study”

• Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.

  Plato

  Wisdom, Plato, Educational

  Plato (1977). “The Portable Plato”, p.349, Penguin

• Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

  Plato

  Plato, Knowledge, Evil

• The knowledge of which geometry aims is the knowledge of the eternal.

  Plato

  Plato, Knowledge, Math

• There is far greater peril in buying knowledge than in buying meat and drink.

  Plato

  Knowledge, Words Of Wisdom, Meat

  Plato (1977). “The Portable Plato”, p.38, Penguin

• In things which we know, everyone will trust us ... and we may do as we please, and no one will like to interfere with us; and we are free, and masters of others; and these things will be really ours, for we shall turn them to our good.

  Plato

  Knowledge, May, Masters

• The science [geometry] is pursued for the sake of the knowledge of what eternally exists, and not of what comes for a moment into existence, and then perishes.

  Plato

  Knowledge, Science, Sake

  Plato, John Llewelyn DAVIES, David James VAUGHAN (1866). “The Republic of Plato, translated into English, with an introduction, analysis, and notes. By J. Ll. Davies and D. J. Vaughan”, p.251

• Most people affirm pleasure to be the good, but the finer sort of wits say it is knowledge.

  Plato

  Knowledge, People, Pleasure

  Plato (2016). “The Republic”, p.390, Xist Publishing

• They assembled together and dedicated these as the first-fruits of their love to Apollo in his Delphic temple, inscribing there those maxims which are on every tongue- 'know thyselP and 'Nothing overmuch.'

  Plato

  Knowledge, Science, Dedication

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