Plato
Quotes from Plato
"Nothing ever is, but is always becoming."
343
"We are twice armed if we fight with faith."
620
"The right question is usually more important than the right answer."
621
"The one who learns and learns and doesn't practice is like the one who plows and plows and never plants."
622
"And what, Socrates, is the food of the soul? Surely, I said, knowledge is the food of the soul."
623
"To love rightly is to love what is orderly and beautiful in an educated and disciplined way."
624
"The madness of love is the greatest of heaven's blessings."
625
"People are like dirt. They can either nourish you and help you grow as a person or they can stunt your growth and make you wilt and die."
626
"The measure of a man is what he does with power."
627
"False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil."
628
"Knowledge without justice ought to be called cunning rather than wisdom."
629
"One of the penalties of refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors."
630
"No one is more hated than he who speaks the truth."
631
"The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life."
632
"There are three classes of men; lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain."
633
"If a man neglects education, he walks lame to the end of his life."
634
"No man should bring children into the world who is unwilling to persevere to the end in their nature and education."
635
"Poverty doesn't come because of the decrease of wealth but because of the increase of desires."
636
"Courage is knowing what not to fear."
637
"Good actions give strength to ourselves and inspire good actions in others."
638
"The beginning is the most important part of the work."
639
"There is in every one of us, even those who seem to be most moderate, a type of desire that is terrible, wild, and lawless."
640
"The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men."
641
"A good decision is based on knowledge and not on numbers."
642
"Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge."
643
"Never discourage anyone who continually makes progress, no matter how slow."
644
"Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination and life to everything."
645
"When you feel grateful, you become great, and eventually attract great things."
646
"Reality is created by the mind, we can change our reality by changing our mind."
647
"Beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder."
648
"I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing."
649
"Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle."
650
"Excellence is not a gift, but a skill that takes practice. We do not act rightly because we are excellent, in fact we achieve excellence by acting rightly."
651
"The greatest wealth is to live content with little."
652
"For a man to conquer himself is the first and noblest of all victories."
653