Single Idea 20185

[catalogued under 11. Knowledge Aims / A. Knowledge / 3. Value of Knowledge]

Full Idea

It would be shameful indeed to say that wisdom and knowledge are anything but the most powerful forces in human activity.

Gist of Idea

The most important things in life are wisdom and knowledge

Source

Plato (Protagoras [c.391 BCE], 352d)

Book Reference

Plato: 'Complete Works', ed/tr. Cooper,John M. [Hackett 1997], p.782


A Reaction

He lumps wisdom and knowledge together, and I think we can take 'knowledge' to mean something like understanding, because obviously mere atomistic propositional knowledge can be utterly trivial.