Plato Quotes

There is but a slight difference between the man who may be said to know nothing and him who thinks he knows everything.

The worst thing you could ever get is people who think they know everything.

He who considers himself a paragon of wisdom is sure to commit some superlatively stupid act.

There is no folly like the folly of the wise.

Many men would have arrived at wisdom had they not believed themselves to have arrived there already.

We thought we were done with these things but we were wrong. We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.

In general, pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes.

They are so knowing, that they know nothing.

The one thing coaches cannot tolerate... is the individual who grows arrogant because he excelled at a lower level and believes he has nothing else to learn.

Science is his forte, and omniscience his foible.

The man who has everything figured out is probably a fool.

For one thing, when you're playing as well as I was at the time, you think you can play with anything. That isn't true, of course, but I didn't know it then.

Stupidity combined with arrogance and a huge ego will get you a long way.

It's what a fellow thinks he knows that hurts him.

There were the giants, great of stature and expert in war.... They perished because they had no wisdom; they perished through their own foolishness.

We thought because we had power, we had wisdom.

Who think themselves most wise are greatest fools

DuPont had the idea there was nobody in the universe who could tell them anything.

It's hubris to think that the way we see things is everything there is.

The true way to be deceived is to think oneself more knowing than others.

When men are most sure and arrogant, they are commonly the most mistaken.

We live in a world in which data convey authority. But authority has a way of descending to certitude, and certitude begets hubris.

I've been asked a lot lately what message is there in the Lusitania for the modern day. To be honest, not much. Except that maybe hubris and overconfidence are always dangerous things.

When as smart as you think you are is as wrong as you turn out to be, your life can fall out from under you.

You can sometimes get the big head and overlook things.