Plato Quotes

Three-fourths of the mistakes a man makes are made because he does not really know what he thinks he knows.

… fear false knowledge

You'd better not know so much, than to know so many things that ain't so.

There's the bullshit you know that you know; the bullshit you don't know and know you don't know; and the bullshit you just think you know but really don't.

It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so.

It ain't ignorance that causes all the trouble in this world. It's the things people know that ain't so.

Obscurity is the realm of error.

All that we don't know is astonishing. Even more astonishing is what passes for knowing.

The best way to convince a fool that he is wrong is to let him have his own way.

The most erroneous stories are those we think we know best - and therefore never scrutinize or question.

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

Thinking you know when in fact you don't is a fatal mistake, to which we are all prone

Our conjectures pass upon us for truths; we will know what we do not know, and often, what we cannot know: so mortifying to our pride is the base suspicion of ignorance.

It is not that the intellect sometimes misunderstands. Rather, the intellect always misunderstands. It is not that the intellect sometimes errs, it is that the intellect is the error.

Error is worse than ignorance.

The trouble with most of us is that we know too much that ain't so.

All you know is what you think you know, but that isn't always what's real.

people think they know what they're getting, and they're always wrong.

The trouble with people is not that they don't know but that they know so much that ain't so.

When we believe in lies, we cannot see the truth, so we make thousands of assumptions and we take them as truth. One of the biggest assumptions we make is that the lies we believe are the truth!

We thought that we had the answers, it was the questions we had wrong.

The kinds of things that we can make mistakes about are essentially unlimited in number.

Anyone who has declared someone else to be an idiot, a bad apple, is annoyed when it turns out in the end that he isn't.

If I don't know I don't know, I think I know. If I don't know I know, I think I don't know.

It is better to know nothing than to know what ain't so.