Plato “Ignorance, the root and stem of all evil.” -Plato “Ignorance, the root and stem of all evil.” -Plato Related Quotes “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.” -Plato “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.” -Plato “This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears he is a protector.” -Plato “There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance” -Socrates “False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.” -Plato “False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.” -Socrates “Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.” -Plato “Nothing is more terrible than to see ignorance in action.” -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe “When you combine ignorance and leverage, you get some pretty interesting results.” -Warren Buffett “I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.” -Socrates