I do see one large and grievous kind of ignorance, separate from the rest, and as weighty as all the other parts put together. Thinking that one know… - Plato
" "I do see one large and grievous kind of ignorance, separate from the rest, and as weighty as all the other parts put together. Thinking that one knows a thing when one does not know it. Through this, I believe, all the mistakes of the mind are caused in all of us.
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Plato (Πλάτων Plátōn; c. 427 BC – c. 347 BC) was a Greek philosopher from Athens during the Classical period in Ancient Greece, founder of the Platonist school of thought and the Academy (Akademia), the first institution of higher learning in the Western world.
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Πλάτων
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Plátōn
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Platon
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Aristocles
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Αριστοκλής
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Ἀριστοκλῆς
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