Plato Quotes About Wisdom
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Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
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Was not this ... what we spoke of as the great advantage of wisdom -- to know what is known and what is unknown to us?
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Do not expect justice where might is right.
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Ignorance, the root and the stem of every evil.
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The cure of many diseases is unknown to physicians because they are ignorant of the whole... For the part can never be well unless the whole is well.
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Nothing in the affairs of men is worthy of great anxiety.
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Thinking is the soul talking to itself.
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They (the poets) are to us in a manner the fathers and authors of the wisdom.
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If you are wise, all men will be your friends and kindred, for you will be useful.
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Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.
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Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.
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Wisdom always makes men fortunate: for by wisdom no man could ever err, and therefore he must act rightly and succeed, or his wisdom would be wisdom no longer.
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Cunning... is but the low mimic of wisdom.
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Philosophy is the highest music.
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A good decision is based on knowledge, and not on numbers.
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There are three classes of men; lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain.
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The god, O men, seems to me to be really wise; and by his oracle to mean this, that the wisdom of this world is foolishness and of none effect.
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The wise man will want to be ever with him who is better than himself.
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