Plato Quotes - Page 3

Either we shall find what it is we are seeking or at least we shall free ourselves from the persuasion that we know what we do not know.

Those who don't know must learn from those who do.

Then we shan’t regard anyone as a lover of knowledge or wisdom who is fussy about what he studies…

Knowledge unqualified is knowledge simply of something learned.

The soul takes nothing with her to the next world but her education and her culture. At the beginning of the journey to the next world, one's education and culture can either provide the greatest assistance, or else act as the greatest burden, to the person who has just died.

The most effective kind of education is that a child should play amongst lovely things.

The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future life

The soul of him who has education is whole and perfect and escapes the worst disease, but, if a man's education be neglected, he walks lamely through life and returns good for nothing to the world below.

Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion has no hold on the mind. Therefore do not use compulsion, but let early education be a sort of amusement; you will then be better able to discover the child's natural bent.

It is the task of the enlightened not only to ascend to learning and to see the good but to be willing to descend again to those prisoners and to share their troubles and their honors, whether they are worth having or not. And this they must do, even with the prospect of death.

Calligraphy is a geometry of the soul which manifests itself physically.

The Muse herself makes some men inspired, from whom a chain of other men is strung out who catch their own inspiration from theirs.

A poet, you see, is a light thing, and winged and holy, and cannot compose before he gets inspiration and loses control of his senses and his reason has deserted him.

Ich kenne keinen sicheren Weg zum Erfolg, nur einen zum sicheren Misserfolg-es jedem recht machen zu wollen.

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.

Courage is knowing what not to fear.

The heaviest penalty for declining to rule is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself.

When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest or treaty and there is nothing to fear from them then he is always stirring up some wary or other in order that the people may require a leader.

They deem him their worst enemy who tells them the truth. -Plato, philosopher (427-347 BCE)

Appearance tyrannizes over truth.