Plato Quotes About Opinions

Quotes about: Opinions

• Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.

  Plato

  Plato, Philosophical, Ignorance

• The true lover of knowledge naturally strives for truth, and is not content with common opinion, but soars with undimmed and unwearied passion till he grasps the essential nature of things.

  Plato

  Inspirational, Passion, Essentials

• When the mind's eye rests on objects illuminated by truth and reality, it understands and comprehends them, and functions intelligently; but when it turns to the twilight world of change and decay, it can only form opinions, its vision is confused and its beliefs shifting, and it seems to lack intelligence.

  Plato

  Confused, Twilight, Eye

• Knowledge is true opinion.

  Plato

  Plato, Opinion

  Plato (2015). “Theaetetus: Top Philosophy Collections”, p.27, 谷月社

• The philosopher is in love with truth, that is, not with the changing world of sensation, which is the object of opinion, but with the unchanging reality which is the object of knowledge.

  Plato

  Reality, Political, Words Of Wisdom

  Plato, Henry Desmond Pritchard Lee (1987). “The Republic”

• True opinions are a fine thing and do all sorts of good so long as they stay in their place; but they will not stay long. They run away from a man's mind, so they are not worth much until you tether them by working out the reason. Once they are tied down, they become knowledge, and are stable.

  Plato

  Running, Men, Long

  Plato (1956). “Protagoras and Meno”

• 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.

  Plato

  Lying, Ignorance, Doe

• That which is apprehended by intelligence and reason is always in the same state; but that which is conceived by opinion with the help of sensation and without reason, is always in a process of becoming and perishing and never really is.

  Plato

  Becoming, Helping, Opinion

  Plato (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Plato (Illustrated)”, p.2120, Delphi Classics

• Just as it would be madness to settle on medical treatment for the body of a person by taking an opinion poll of the neighbors, so it is irrational to prescribe for the body politic by polling the opinions of the people at large.

  Plato

  People, Would Be, Body

• Then may we not fairly plead in reply that our true lover of knowledge naturally strives for truth, and is not content with common opinion, but soars with undimmed and unwearied passion till he grasps the essential nature of things with the mental faculty fitted to do so, that is, with the faculty which is akin to reality, and which approaches and unites with it, and begets intelligence and truth as children, and is only released from travail when it has thus reached knowledge and true life and satisfaction?

  Plato

  Children, Passion, Reality

• Not one of them who took up in his youth with this opinion that there are no gods ever continued until old age faithful to his conviction.

  Plato

  Faith, Age, Opinion

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