Plato - Plato Quotes: 365 Quotes By Plato

Plato Quotes 365 Quotes By Plato B. Ashiedu
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Introduction Plato was one of the greatest Philosophers of his time and some would say in history. He was born around 428 BC. In 388 BC, Plato founded a school called The Academy.

This was the first European University. Plato was an associate of Socrates, another great philosopher. Many years after they were uttered, his words and sayings are very popular and commonly used in everyday conversation by millions of people. This collection of quotes will give you an insight into the mind of Plato and inspire you.

Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body; but knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind. Quote 3 A good decision is based on knowledge and not on numbers. Quote 4 A hero is born among a hundred, a wise man is found among a thousand. Quote 5 A library of wisdom, is more precious than all wealth, and all things that are desirable cannot be compared to it. Whoever therefore claims to be zealous of truth, of happiness, of wisdom or knowledge, must become a lover of books. Quote 6 A house that has a library in it has a soul.

Quote 7 A life without investigation is not worth living. Quote 8 A man ought not to return evil for evil, as many think, since at no time ought we to do an injury to our neighbor. Quote 9 A principle which has any soundness should stand firm not only just now, but always. Quote 10 A person's desires force him to something to reason and he berates himself and gets indignant with the part that forces him, and his spirit allies with reason as though reason and desire were at civil war. Quote 11 A measure of such things which in any degree falls short of the whole truth is not fair measure; for nothing imperfect is the measure of anything, although persons are too apt to be contented and think that they need search no further. Quote 12 A work well begun is half ended.

Quote 13 A wise man speaks because he has something to say; a fool because he has to say something. Quote 14 A sensible man will remember that the eyes may be confused in two ways - by a change from light to darkness or from darkness to light; and he will recognize that the same thing happens to the soul. Quote 15 Above all things truth beareth away the victory. Quote 16 Age isn't easy for a good man if he's poor, nor will a bad man ever be cheerful with himself even if he's rich. Quote 17 All enquiry and all learning is but recollection. Quote 18 All I really know is the extent of my own ignorance Quote 19 All is flux, nothing stays still.

Quote 20 All learning has an emotional base. Quote 21 All knowledge, when separated from justice and virtue, is seen to be cunning and not wisdom. Quote 22 All learning is in the learner, not the teacher. Quote 23 All men are by nature equal, made all of the same earth by one Workman; and however we deceive ourselves, as dear unto God is the poor peasant as the mighty prince. Quote 24 All who do evil and dishonorable things do them against their will. Quote 25 All the gold which is under or upon the earth is not enough to give in exchange for virtue.

Quote 26 All things will be produced in superior quantity and quality, and with greater ease, when each man works at a single occupation, in accordance with his natural gifts, and at the right moment, without meddling with anything else. Quote 27 Always be kind, for everyone is fighting a hard battle. Quote 28 An accomplished one might not be found even among a hundred thousand men Quote 29 An empty vessel makes the loudest sound, so they that have the least wit are the greatest babblers. Quote 30 Any city however small, is in fact divided into two, one the city of the poor, the other of the rich. These are at war with one another.

Quote 32 Any peace is better than any war Quote 33 Are you not ashamed that you give your attention to acquiring as much money as possible, and similarly with reputation and honor, and give no attention or thought to truth and understanding and the perfection of your soul? Quote 34 As the builders say, the larger stones do not lie well without the lesser. Quote 35 Arithmetic is a kind of knowledge in which the best natures should be trained, and which must not be given up. Quote 36 Artist or sage or ruler errs at the time when he is what his name implies. Quote 37 Wonder is the only beginning of philosophy Quote 38 As it is, the lover of inquiry must follow his beloved wherever it may lead him. Quote 39 Appearance tyrannizes over truth. Quote 40 As there are misanthropists, or haters of men, there are also misologists, or haters of ideas, and both spring from the same cause, which is ignorance of the world.

Quote 41 Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another. Quote 42 As wolves love lambs so lovers love their loves. Quote 43 Assuredly he will love that most whose interests he regards as identical with his own, and in whose prosperity or adversity he believes his own fortunes to be involved. Quote 44 Atheism is a disease of the soul before it becomes an error of understanding. Quote 45 At the touch of love, Everyone becomes a poet. Quote 46 Love is a good poet and accomplished in all the fine arts; for no one can give to another that which he has not himself, or teach that of which he has no knowledge.

Who will deny that the creation of the animals is his doing? Are they not all the works of his wisdom, born and begotten of him? And as to the artists, do we not know that he only of them whom love inspires has the light of fame? Quote 47 He whom love touches not walks in darkness Quote 48 Beauty is certainly a soft, smooth, slippery thing, and therefore of a nature which easily slips in and permeates our souls. Quote 49 Beauty is the splendor of truth. Quote 50 Beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder Quote 51 Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depend on simplicity I mean the true simplicity of a rightly and nobly ordered mind and character, not that other simplicity which is only a euphemism for folly. Quote 52 Because people want more and more possessions, they start wanting more money, and thus honor money more and excellence less. Accordingly, the wealthy become more honored, and the people of excellence less honored. With the majority now money-loving businessmen instead of lovers of victory and honor, the admirable rich men will be put into office, and the poor will be dishonored.

Quote 53 But of the heaven which is above the heavens, what earthly poet ever did or ever will sing worthily? Quote 54 Beholding beauty with the eye of the mind, he will be enabled to bring forth, not images of beauty, but realities (for he has hold not of an image but of a reality), and bringing forth and nourishing true virtue to become the friend of God and be immortal, if mortal man may. Quote 55 Better a little which is well done, than a great deal imperfectly. Quote 56 Books are immortal sons defying their sires. Quote 57 By such reflections and by the continuance in them of a divine nature, the qualities which we have described grew and increased among them; but when the divine portion began to fade away, and became diluted too often and too much with the mortal admixture, and the human nature got the upper hand, they then, being unable to bear their fortune, behaved unseemly, and to him who had an eye to see grew visibly debased, for they were losing the fairest of their precious gifts; but to those who had no eye to see the true happiness, they appeared glorious and blessed at the very time when they were full of avarice and unrighteous power. Quote 58 Certainly old age has a great sense of calm and freedom; when the passions relax their hold, then, as Sophocles says, we are freed from the grasp not of one mad master only, but of many. The truth is, Socrates, that these regrets, and also the complaints about relations, are to be attributed to the same cause, which is not old age, but men's characters and tempers; for he who is of a calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age, but to him who is of opposite disposition youth and age are equally a burden.