The Apology
    Part
  1 Intro|         but the fact is that he is ignorant of them, and never says
  2 Intro|         Athenian people are not so ignorant as to attribute to the influence
  3 Text |         find out that you are more ignorant than they are. Accordingly,
  4 Text |         many things of which I was ignorant, and in this they certainly


Charmides
    Part
  5 Text |           Hellas, because they are ignorant of the whole, which ought
  6 Text |     imagine that temperate men are ignorant of their own temperance?~
  7 Text |           something of which I was ignorant. And at this moment I pursue
  8 Text |         impossible.~Then he who is ignorant of these things will only
  9 Text |           things of which they are ignorant to those who were better
 10 Text |        know matters of which he is ignorant, will deceive or elude us;
 11 Text |         well as the future, and is ignorant of nothing. Let us suppose


Cratylus
    Part
 12 Intro|            he was necessarily more ignorant than any schoolboy of Greek
 13 Text |            appear different to the ignorant person, and he may not recognize
 14 Text |        they could hardly have been ignorant.~CRATYLUS: I should say


Critias
    Part
 15 Intro|     survived in the mountains were ignorant of the art of writing, and
 16 Text |       speak of it, and we know how ignorant we are concerning the gods.
 17 Text |           mountains; and they were ignorant of the art of writing, and


Euthydemus
    Part
 18 Intro|         combination, and hence are ignorant that the union of two good
 19 Text |          who learn the wise or the ignorant?~The youth, overpowered
 20 Text |            a wise physician, or an ignorant one?~A wise one.~You think,
 21 Text |      fortunate than to act with an ignorant one?~He assented.~Then wisdom
 22 Text |         become wise and not, to be ignorant?~That we do.~You wish him
 23 Text |          ignorance, or men who are ignorant; for is not ignorance, if
 24 Text |    seriously maintain no man to be ignorant?~Refute me, he said.~But
 25 Text |         majority of mankind are so ignorant of their value, that they


The First Alcibiades
    Part
 26 Intro|        aware of a time when he was ignorant. But he never was ignorant;
 27 Intro|         ignorant. But he never was ignorant; for when he played with
 28 Intro|        training, for others are as ignorant as he is. He is reminded
 29 Intro|           things. No man knows how ignorant he is, and no man can arrive
 30 Text |            you think that you were ignorant—if you consider, you will
 31 Text |          whom you thus allow to be ignorant are the teachers to whom
 32 Text |            is clearly that you are ignorant?~ALCIBIADES: Very likely.~
 33 Text |         the reason is that you are ignorant of them, and therefore in
 34 Text |            things of which you are ignorant? You know, for example,
 35 Text |         And so there is a class of ignorant persons who do not make
 36 Text |           things of which they are ignorant?~ALCIBIADES: True.~SOCRATES:
 37 Text |            shown, you are not only ignorant of the greatest matters,
 38 Text |        greatest matters, but being ignorant you fancy that you know
 39 Text |           ourselves, and if we are ignorant we shall not know.~ALCIBIADES:
 40 Text |        ourselves. Can we really be ignorant of the excellent meaning
 41 Text |             will in like manner be ignorant of the things which belong
 42 Text |             And will not he who is ignorant fall into error?~ALCIBIADES:


Gorgias
    Part
 43 Intro| declaration of Socrates that he is ignorant of the true nature and bearing
 44 Intro|          be more persuasive to the ignorant than the physician, or any
 45 Intro|       expert. And he is said to be ignorant, and this ignorance of his
 46 Intro|          of learning. But is he as ignorant of just and unjust as he
 47 Intro|          desire to be. If they are ignorant, they must acknowledge their
 48 Intro|        desire them to obey all the ignorant impulses of the popular
 49 Text |          You mean to say, with the ignorant; for with those who know
 50 Text |      physician must, obviously, be ignorant of what the physician knows.~
 51 Text |            than the physician, the ignorant is more persuasive with
 52 Text |           more persuasive with the ignorant than he who has knowledge?—
 53 Text |         some way of persuading the ignorant that he has more knowledge
 54 Text |         whether he is or is not as ignorant of the just and unjust,
 55 Text |         has he only a way with the ignorant of persuading them that
 56 Text |          art of rhetoric? If he is ignorant, you who are the teacher
 57 Text |            any one who came to him ignorant of them he could teach them,
 58 Text |      intemperate, and cowardly and ignorant, is more painful than to
 59 Text |            life, he is necessarily ignorant of all those things which
 60 Text |     private or public, and utterly ignorant of the pleasures and desires
 61 Text |          onomase pithon.), and the ignorant he called the uninitiated
 62 Text |        colander is the soul of the ignorant, which is likewise full
 63 Text |      always been, that I myself am ignorant how these things are, but


Laches
    Part
 64 Text |   something of which we are wholly ignorant?~LACHES: I do not think
 65 Text |          dangers, because they are ignorant of them, courageous, but
 66 Text |         and if we are both equally ignorant of the things which a man


Laws
    Book
 67 2    |       occurs to them that they are ignorant of what they are doing.
 68 3    |           ruder, perhaps, and more ignorant of the arts generally, and
 69 3    |          he must be stigmatized as ignorant, even though he be versed
 70 3    |           the state: he is utterly ignorant of political wisdom. Let
 71 3    |          lead and command, and the ignorant follow and obey; and yet,
 72 5    |          for the untrustworthy and ignorant has no friend, and as time
 73 5    |          to us, “do not suppose me ignorant that there is a certain
 74 7    |         learn, but of which we are ignorant? Try and explain the nature
 75 10   |             my friends, seem to be ignorant of the nature and power
 76 10   |          careless because they are ignorant, and do not know that they
 77 10   |            annoyed because you are ignorant how what is best for you
 78 12   |             And a physician who is ignorant about the body, that is
 79 12   |     victory, or any others who are ignorant of the particulars of the
 80 12   |           If a person proves to be ignorant of the aim to which the
 81 12   |            is good for anything be ignorant of all this without discredit


Lysis
    Part
 82 Intro|          the Symposium, that he is ignorant of all other things, but
 83 Text |    physician; and every one who is ignorant, has to love and court him
 84 Text |           lovers of wisdom who are ignorant to the extent of being evil,
 85 Text |         being evil, for no evil or ignorant person is a lover of wisdom.
 86 Text |          have the misfortune to be ignorant, but are not yet hardened


Meno
    Part
 87 Intro|             who is their pupil, is ignorant of the very nature of general
 88 Intro|             For he is exhibited as ignorant of the very elements of
 89 Text |         obvious that those who are ignorant of their nature do not desire
 90 Text |         knew, though he was really ignorant of it, until he had fallen
 91 Text |            of which you are wholly ignorant?~ANYTUS: Quite well; I am
 92 Text |      teachers of others, but to be ignorant themselves, and bad at the


Phaedrus
    Part
 93 Intro|         Two inexperienced persons, ignorant of the world and of one
 94 Intro|      simplicity and truth, and how ignorant of the very elements of
 95 Text |            to inferiority. And the ignorant is the inferior of the wise,
 96 Text |            beloved shall be wholly ignorant, and in everything shall
 97 Text |            amazement; but they are ignorant of what this rapture means,
 98 Text |         for evil, being himself as ignorant of their true nature as
 99 Text |        city on which he imposes is ignorant; and having studied the
100 Text |             SOCRATES: And if he is ignorant of the true nature of any
101 Text |            by the hypothesis he is ignorant?~PHAEDRUS: He cannot.~SOCRATES:
102 Text |       SOCRATES: He then, who being ignorant of the truth aims at appearances,
103 Text |           and Gorgias, who are not ignorant that probability is superior


Philebus
    Part
104 Text |         the first place be utterly ignorant of whether you were pleased
105 Text |            place, about money; the ignorant may fancy himself richer


Protagoras
    Part
106 Intro|          lesser matters leave them ignorant of the common duty of citizens?
107 Text |        Sophist, but are manifestly ignorant of what a Sophist is; and
108 Text |           many of them were really ignorant of their effect upon the
109 Text |            their customers equally ignorant, unless he who buys of them
110 Text |       comparison of those who were ignorant and unacquainted with the
111 Text |            of those who are wholly ignorant. And this is true of virtue
112 Text |             and they pretend to be ignorant, just because they do not
113 Text |           for Simonides was not so ignorant as to say that he praised
114 Text |  unrighteous, unholy, intemperate, ignorant, who are nevertheless remarkable
115 Text |           not seen persons utterly ignorant, I said, of these things,
116 Text |  unrighteous, and intemperate, and ignorant of men are among the most
117 Text |         there are men who are most ignorant and yet most courageous?~


The Republic
    Book
118 1    |     consequence: Many a man who is ignorant of human nature has friends
119 1    |         Done to me!-as becomes the ignorant, I must learn from the wise-that
120 1    |           denied. ~And what of the ignorant? would he not desire to
121 1    |          either the knowing or the ignorant? ~I dare say. ~And the knowing
122 1    |           so. ~Whereas the bad and ignorant will desire to gain more
123 1    |           unjust like the evil and ignorant? ~That is the inference. ~
124 1    |            and the unjust evil and ignorant. ~Thrasymachus made all
125 2    |          Can we suppose that he is ignorant of antiquity, and therefore
126 4    |            matters of which we are ignorant ourselves, and as founders
127 5    |            at the very foundation, ignorant of what a hornet's nest
128 5    |        wisdom," ~and he himself is ignorant of what he is laughing at,
129 6    |           for I would not have you ignorant that, in the present evil
130 6    |            this. You can hardly be ignorant that of this I was about
131 6    |         suspect that no one who is ignorant of the good will have a
132 7    |       fleet-how could he if he was ignorant of number? And if that is
133 7    |       during the period when he is ignorant of the false relation, and
134 7    |        should say that while he is ignorant of the truth he will be
135 8    |            when your guardians are ignorant of the law of births, and
136 9    | disapprover is wrong and false and ignorant? ~Yes, from every point
137 10   |           other people, who are as ignorant as he is, and judge only
138 10   |          appears to be good to the ignorant multitude? ~Just so. ~Thus


The Second Alcibiades
    Part
139 Text |          both to the person who is ignorant and everybody else?~ALCIBIADES:
140 Text |            to prevent a man who is ignorant of the best, having occasionally
141 Text |         art, while he was entirely ignorant of what was best for himself


The Sophist
    Part
142 Intro|          and no one is voluntarily ignorant; ignorance is only the aberration
143 Intro|          materialists are rude and ignorant of dialectics; they must
144 Intro|           yet he is far from being ignorant of the world. No one can
145 Text |        that no soul is voluntarily ignorant of anything?~THEAETETUS:
146 Text |         But how can any one who is ignorant dispute in a rational manner
147 Text |             But we may be; equally ignorant of both.~THEAETETUS: I dare
148 Text |            musician, and he who is ignorant, not a musician?~THEAETETUS:
149 Text |            the other, as he who is ignorant is distinguished from him
150 Text |      suspects and fears that he is ignorant of that which to the many
151 Text |            for upon our view he is ignorant; but since he is an imitator


The Statesman
    Part
152 Intro|           ever. The law is just an ignorant brute of a tyrant, who insists
153 Intro|        them are summoned before an ignorant and unprofessional court,
154 Intro|           of the law, who was both ignorant and interested, and who
155 Intro|        their pilots are absolutely ignorant of the science which they
156 Intro|        need not necessarily be an ‘ignorant and brutal tyrant,’ but
157 Intro|          object of reverence is an ignorant and brutal tyrant—the tyrant
158 Text |      syllables) of facts, is again ignorant of them?~YOUNG SOCRATES:
159 Text |         one;—like an obstinate and ignorant tyrant, who will not allow


The Symposium
    Part
160 Intro|           between the wise and the ignorant. Such is the nature of Love,
161 Text |        Impossible: I said. Are you ignorant that for many years Agathon
162 Text |            that which is not wise, ignorant? do you not see that there
163 Text |       after wisdom. Neither do the ignorant seek after wisdom. For herein
164 Text |           between the wise and the ignorant. And of this too his birth
165 Text |            he knows nothing and is ignorant of all things—such is the
166 Text |        compare Gorg.), so that any ignorant or inexperienced person


Theaetetus
    Part
167 Intro|            Meno: ‘How can a man be ignorant of that which he knows?’
168 Intro|          that no one deems another ignorant or mistaken. If you form
169 Intro|          and we cannot know and be ignorant at the same time; we cannot
170 Intro|             And how can any one be ignorant of either of them, and yet
171 Text |            my writings in the same ignorant manner; but this is not
172 Text |          that no one deems another ignorant or mistaken in his opinion?~
173 Text |         next-door neighbour; he is ignorant, not only of what he is
174 Text |             and also because he is ignorant of what is before him, and
175 Text |             is he at the same time ignorant of both?~THEAETETUS: That,
176 Text |          knowledge of objects, and ignorant.~THEAETETUS: No man, Socrates,
177 Text |      another, so long as we remain ignorant about knowledge; and at
178 Text |            we understand,’ ‘we are ignorant,’ as though we could still
179 Text |           knowledge of anything be ignorant of that which he knows,
180 Text |          still know nothing and be ignorant of all things?—you might
181 Text |        that knowledge can make him ignorant.~THEAETETUS: Perhaps, Socrates,
182 Text |            SOCRATES: But can he be ignorant of either singly and yet


Timaeus
    Part
183 Intro|          the Egyptian priests, how ignorant he and his countrymen were
184 Intro|          of the most senseless and ignorant and impure of men, whom
185 Intro|           of a very indefinite and ignorant mind.’~The twenty triangular
186 Intro|     consequence. For though he was ignorant of many things which are
187 Intro|            Plato often seems to be ignorant of, and that as there is
188 Intro|        that he could not have been ignorant either of the doctrine of
189 Intro|       bones and veins; he was also ignorant of the distinction between
190 Intro|       aware—and he could hardly be ignorant—that blood is a fluid in
191 Text |          of a sadly indefinite and ignorant mind. He, however, who raises
192 Text |        most entirely senseless and ignorant of all, whom the transformers