Plato > Quotes
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“Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle.”
― Plato
“We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.”
― Plato
“Only the dead have seen the end of war.”
― Plato
“The heaviest penalty for declining to rule is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself.”
― Plato, The Republic
“I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.”
― Plato, The Republic
“Never discourage anyone...who continually makes progress, no matter how slow.”
― Plato
“Love is a serious mental disease.”
― Plato, Phaedrus
“One of the penalties of refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.”
― Plato
“good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws”
― Plato
“The measure of a man is what he does with power.”
― Plato
“Ignorance, the root and stem of every evil.”
― Plato
“I'm trying to think, don't confuse me with facts.”
― Plato
“If women are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach them the same things.”
― Plato, The Republic
“There is truth in wine and children”
― Plato, Symposium / Phaedrus
“Those who tell the stories rule society.”
― Plato
“Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge. ”
― Plato
“The madness of love is the greatest of heaven's blessings.”
― Plato, Phaedrus
“Education is teaching our children to desire the right things.”
― Plato
“There are three classes of men; lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain.”
― Plato
“In politics we presume that everyone who knows how to get votes knows how to administer a city or a state. When we are ill... we do not ask for the handsomest physician, or the most eloquent one.”
― Plato
“There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.”
― Plato
“You should not honor men more than truth.”
― Plato
“The beginning is the most important part of the work.”
― Plato, The Republic
“When men speak ill of thee, live so as nobody may believe them.”
― Plato
“Necessity is the mother of invention.”
― Plato
“False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.”
“Writing is the geometry of the soul.”
― Plato
“The untrained mind keeps up a running commentary, labelling everything, judging everything. Best to ignore that commentary. Don’t argue or resist, just ignore. Deprived of attention and interest, this voice gets quieter and quieter and eventually just shuts up.”
― Plato
“And what, Socrates, is the food of the soul? Surely, I said, knowledge is the food of the soul.”
“Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body; but knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.”
― Plato
“Do not train a child to learn by force or harshness; but direct them to it by what amuses their minds, so that you may be better able to discover with accuracy the peculiar bent of the genius of each.”
― Plato
“Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.”
― Plato
“An empty vessel makes the loudest sound, so they that have the least wit are the greatest babblers.”
― Plato
“If a man neglects education, he walks lame to the end of his life.”
“All men are by nature equal, made all of the same earth by one workman.”
“Books give a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and life to everything.”
― Plato
“The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life”.
― Plato
“The object of education is to teach us to love what is beautiful.”
― Plato, The Republic
“A house that has a library in it has a soul.”
― Plato
“Necessity is the mother of invention.”
― Plato
“The greatest wealth is to live content with little.”
― Plato
“Death is not the worst that can happen to men.”
― Plato
“Love is simply the name for the desire and pursuit of the whole.”
― Plato, The Symposium
“Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body; but knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.”
― Plato, The Republic
“Beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder”
― Plato
“An empty vessel makes the loudest sound, so they that have the least wit are the greatest babblers.”
― Plato
“Beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder”
― Plato
Plato quotes on knowledge
The fact or condition of knowing something with familiarity gained through experience or association.
“No man should bring children into the world who is unwilling to persevere to the end in their nature and education.”
― Plato
“Character is simply habit long continued.”
― Plato
“You're my Star, a stargazer too,
and I wish that I were Heaven,
with a billion eyes to look at you!”
― Plato
“Writing is the geometry of the soul. ”
― Plato
Nothing beautiful without struggle.”
― Plato, The Republic
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