Plato Ignorance Quotes

#1. Plato was right when he said that all evil comes from ignorance. He forgot that ignorance also comes from evil.

Peter Kreeft

#2. Ignorance, the root and the stem of every evil.

Plato

#3. The Socratic dialogue was a spiritual exercise designed to produce a profound psychological change in the participants, and because its purpose was that each person should understand the depth of his ignorance, there was no way that anybody could win. Plato

Karen Armstrong

#4. I believe that Plato was correct in saying that our souls long for the Good, and that nobody chooses evil for themselves while recognizing that it is evil, though some may do it in ignorance.

Jo Walton

#5. According to Plato, Socrates believed all knowledge came from a divine state, but humans had forgotten it. Most lived in a cave of ignorance, but one could become enlightened by climbing out of the darkness and understanding the divide between the spiritual and material planes.

Gwendolyn Womack

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

Plato