Plato Quotes

Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.

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.

There is no sin but ignorance.

Wisdom has its root in goodness, not goodness its root in wisdom.

… knowledge without conscience is but the ruin of the soul

The greatest sin is judgment without knowledge.

The only good is knowledge, and the only evil is ignorance.

It is not easy to do something good, but it is extremely difficult to do something bad.

Humility and knowledge in poor clothes excel pride and ignorance in costly attire.

The sins of teachers are the teachers of sin.

Bad company corrupts good character.

Wisdom and goodness are twin-born, one heart must hold both sisters, never seen apart.

Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom.

Vanity of science. Knowledge of physical science will not console me for ignorance of morality in time of affliction, but knowledge of morality will always console me for ignorance of physical science.

Knowledge without education is but armed injustice.

Truth is the beginning of every good to the gods, and of every good to man.

Knowledge will give you power, but character respect.

Wisdom we know is the knowledge of good and evil, not the strength to choose between the two.

Ignorance and a narrow education lay the foundation of vice, and imitation and custom rear it up.

That is the true definition of sin; when knowing right you do the lower, ah, then you sin. Where there is no knowledge, sin is not present.

We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.

Wisdom is the knowledge of good and evil, not the strength to choose between the two.

Knowledge without justice ought to be called cunning rather than wisdom.

But what sin is to the moralist and crime to the jurist so to the scientific man is ignorance.

It makes a great deal of difference whether one wills not to sin or has not the knowledge to sin.