Plato, Alcibiades 2, section 146b

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[146b] should we not be right in saying that such a state is one great mass of turmoil and lawlessness?

Alcibiades
We should, upon my word.

Socrates
And we took it to be necessary that we should first think we know, or really know, anything that we confidently intend either to do or to say?

Alcibiades
We did.

Socrates
And if a man does what he knows or thinks he knows, and is assisted by knowing how to make it beneficial, we shall find him profitable

Plato. Plato in Twelve Volumes, Vol. 8 translated by W.R.M. Lamb. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1955.

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