The right question is usually more important than the right answer.

The race of the guardians must be kept pure.

We must infer that all things are produced more plentifully and easily and of a better quality when one man does one thing which is natural to him and does it at the right time, and leaves other things.

Knowledge is true opinion.

That man is wisest who, like Socrates, realizes that his wisdom is worthless

.. we shall not be properly educated ourselves, nor will the guardians whom we are training, until we can recognise the qualities of discipline, courage, generosity, greatness of mind, and others akin to them, as well as their opposites in all their manifestations.

And may we not say, Adeimantus, that the most gifted minds, when they are ill- educated, become the worst?