Plato Quotes

Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.

Belief and knowledge are considered to be two different things. But they are not.

In truth, opinion may be taken for understanding; understanding cannot be taken for opinion. How so? Surely because opinion may be deceived; understanding cannot be. If it could, it would not be understanding but opinion. For true understanding has not only certain truth, but the knowledge of truth.

Knowledge, may it be said, is higher than magic and is more to be sought. It is quite possible to see what is happening and yet not know what is forward, for while seeing is believing, it does not follow that either seeing or believing is knowing.

Knowledge is two-fold, and consists not only in an affirmation of what is true, but in the negation of that which is false.

To know that we know what we know, and to know that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge.

Wisdom alone is the science of other sciences.

Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.

Knowledge goes hand and hand with truth.

Ignorance never settles a question.

Wisdom is only found in truth.

Doubt is the vestibule through which all must pass before they can enter into the temple of wisdom.

Versatility of education can be found in our best poetry, but the depth of mankind should be found in the philosopher.

To know what you know and what you do not know, that is true knowledge.

All men by nature desire knowledge.

To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.

I had therefore to remove knowledge, in order to make room for belief.

The seat of knowledge is in the head; of wisdom, in the heart. We are sure to judge wrong, if we do not feel right.

Knowledge is only one half. Faith is the other.

My own view about knowledge is we're always better to have knowledge.

Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom.

Facts are many, but the truth is one.

Wisdom is a kind of knowledge. It is knowledge of the nature, career, and consequences of human values.

To know, is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge.

There are in fact two things, science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the later ignorance.