Plato Ignorance Quotations

Entire ignorance is not so terrible or extreme an evil, and is far from being the greatest of all.

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.

Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.

Complacent ignorance is the most lethal sickness of the soul

All I really know is the extent of my own ignorance

A wise ignorance is an essential part of knowledge.

Ignorance is the root cause of all difficulties.

Neither do the ignorant love wisdom or desire to become wise; for this is the grievous thing about ignorance, that those who are neither good nor beautiful think they are good enough, and do not desire that which they do not think they are lacking.

Between knowledge of what really exists and ignorance of what does not exist lies the domain of opinion. It is more obscure than knowledge, but clearer than ignorance.

Let no-one ignorant of geometry enter. Said to have been inscribed above the door of Plato's Academy.

Herein is the evil of ignorance, that he who is neither good nor wise is nevertheless satisfied with himself: he had no desire for that of which he feels no want.

And the quality of good judgement is clearly a form of knowledge and skill, as it is because of knowledge and not because of ignorance that we judge well.

To be curious about that which is not one's concern while still in ignorance of oneself is ridiculous.

Ignorance: the root of all evil.

We see many instances of cities going down like sinking ships to their destruction. There have been such wrecks in the past and there surely will be others in the future, caused by the wickedness of captains and crews alike. For these are guilty men, whose sin is supreme ignorance of what matters most.

Better to be unborn than untaught, for ignorance is the root of all misfortune.

Ignorance, the root and the stem of every evil.