Quote of Plato - Knowledge becomes evil if the aim...
Biography - Plato:
Greek philosopher (Approximate years of birth and death).
Born: -428 - Died: -348
Period:
4th century BC
5th century BC
Place of birth: Greece
Born: -428 - Died: -348
Period:
4th century BC
5th century BC
Place of birth: Greece
Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.
See also...
Quotes about virtue:
'No soul is willing to be robbed of truth', he says. The same holds of justice, too, of temperance, of kindness, and the like. It is most necessary to remember this continually, for thus you will be more gentle to all men.
Recommend virtue to your children it alone, not money, can make them happy. I speak from experience.
Quotes for: evil
The world is in greater peril from those who tolerate or encourage evil than from those who actually commit it.
The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding.
Quotes for: knowledge
Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not.
The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.
Plato also said...
The chief penalty is to be governed by someone worse if a man will not himself hold office and rule.
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