Plato, Philebus, section 59b

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[59b] since none of them ever was, will be, or is in the same state?

Protarchus
Of course not.

Socrates
How can we gain anything fixed whatsoever about things which have no fixedness whatsoever?

Protarchus
In no way, as it seems to me.

Socrates
Then no mind or science which is occupied with them possesses the most perfect truth.

Protarchus
No, it naturally does not.

Socrates
Then we must dismiss the thought of you and me and Gorgias and Philebus, and make this solemn declaration

Plato. Plato in Twelve Volumes, Vol. 9 translated by Harold N. Fowler. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1925.

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