Plato Quotes

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.

I'm not very wise to many things.

Facts are many, but the truth is one.

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

Knowledge is true opinion.

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.

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.

I have thousands of opinions still - but that is down from millions - and, as always, I know nothing.

The small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify we give the name of knowledge.

Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong.

The opposite of a fact is falsehood, but the opposite of one profound truth may very well be another profound truth.

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

You do ill if you praise, but worse if you censure, what you do not understand.

Knowledge goes hand and hand with truth.

But I know that all the things I do know are very small compared with the things that I don't know.

Understanding that rests in what it does not understand is the finest.

Was not this ... what we spoke of as the great advantage of wisdom -- to know what is known and what is unknown to us?

I think perception is important.

Were one merely to seek information, one should inquire of the man who hates, but if one wishes to know what truly is, one better ask the one who loves.

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

Indeed, the most important product of knowledge is ignorance.

The first point of wisdom is to discern that which is false; the second, to know that which is true.

In complete darkness, it is only knowledge and wisdom that separates us.

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.