Quote by Plato

Entire ignorance is not so terrible or extreme an evil, and is far from being the greatest of all; too much cleverness and too much learning, accompanied with ill bringing-up, are far more fatal.

Entire ignorance is not so terrible or extreme an evil, and

Summary

This quote suggests that total ignorance is not as harmful as an excess of intelligence and knowledge when combined with improper upbringing. It implies that being completely ignorant may not be as detrimental as having a flawed character despite being well-educated. It implies that intelligence and learning, when not accompanied by good values and morals, can lead to more detrimental consequences than a lack of knowledge.

By Plato

Liked the quote? Share it with your friends.

Random Quotations

I look OK. I look better in person than I do on film, which

I look OK. I look better in person than I do on film, which is bad because it's how I make my living, but I am not a beauty and on balance I am glad.

Felicity Huffman

Beauty

Happiness, true happiness, is an inner quality. It is a stat

Happiness, true happiness, is an inner quality. It is a state of mind. If your mind is at peace, you are happy. If your mind is at peace, but you have nothing else, you can be happy. If you have everything the world can give - pleasure, possessions, power - but lack peace of mind, you can never be happy.

What I find cool about being a banned author is this: I'm wr

What I find cool about being a banned author is this: I'm writing books that evoke a reaction, books that, if dropped in a lake, go down not with a whimper but a splash.

Cool

Only free peoples can hold their purpose and their honor ste

Only free peoples can hold their purpose and their honor steady to a common end and prefer the interest of mankind to any narrow interest of their own.

Curiosity

To permit this gross new revelation to fade, or be forgiven,

To permit this gross new revelation to fade, or be forgiven, would be to devalue our most essential standard of what constitutes the unpardonable. And for what? For the reputation of a man who turns out to be not even a Holocaust denier but a Holocaust affirmer. There has to be a moral limit, and either this has to be it or we must cease pretending to ourselves that we observe one.

Christopher Hitchens

Morality Holocaust Henry Kissinger Nixon Library And Museum The Holocaust Denial

The same principles which at first view lead to skepticism,

The same principles which at first view lead to skepticism, pursued to a certain point, bring men back to common sense.

George Berkeley

Men

Here's what I tell anybody and this is what I believe. The g

Here's what I tell anybody and this is what I believe. The greatest gift we have is the gift of life. We understand that. That comes from our Creator. We're given a body. Now you may not like it, but you can maximize that body the best it can be maximized.

Best

My earliest poems sing of the absolute necessity of allowing

My earliest poems sing of the absolute necessity of allowing love to invade and pervade one's life. That can make the miracle happen in reality. Try it.

James Broughton

Life Love Miracles Necessity

My focus is to forget the pain of life. Forget the pain, moc

My focus is to forget the pain of life. Forget the pain, mock the pain, reduce it. And laugh.

Life

It wasn't necessary to know your own demons in order to find

It wasn't necessary to know your own demons in order to find God.

God Self

Violence is not only impractical but immoral.

Violence is not only impractical but immoral.

Martin Luther King Jr.

Violence Nonviolence

I'd like to say I was smart enough to finish six grades in f

I'd like to say I was smart enough to finish six grades in five years, but I think perhaps the teacher was just glad to get rid of me.

Teacher