Plato quotes

“Hardly any human being is capable of pursuing two professions or two arts rightly.”

— Plato

“He who steals a little steals with the same wish as he who steals much, but with less power.”

— Plato

“Our object in the construction of the state is the greatest happiness of the whole, and not that of any one class.”

— Plato

“The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is to live under the government of worse men.”

— Plato

“Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.”

— Plato

“Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.”

— Plato

“Man - a being in search of meaning.”

— Plato

“The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.”

— Plato

“Science is nothing but perception.”

— Plato

“When men speak ill of thee, live so as nobody may believe them.”

— Plato

“The most important part of education is proper training in the nursery.”

— Plato

“Ignorance of all things is an evil neither terrible nor excessive, nor yet the greatest of all; but great cleverness and much learning, if they be accompanied by a bad training, are a much greater misfortune.”

— Plato

“There are three classes of men; lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain.”

— Plato

“When the mind is thinking it is talking to itself.”

— Plato

“I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was capable of reasoning. ”

— Plato

“Wisdom alone is the science of other sciences. ”

— Plato

“Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.”

— Plato

“If a man neglects education, he walks lame to the end of his life.”

— Plato

“We do not learn; and what we call learning is only a process of recollection.”

— Plato

“It is a common saying, and in everybody's mouth, that life is but a sojourn.”

— Plato

“Tyranny naturally arises out of democracy.”

— Plato

“Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.”

— Plato

“I shall assume that your silence gives consent.”

— Plato

“There's a victory, and defeat; the first and best of victories, the lowest and worst of defeats which each man gains or sustains at the hands not of another, but of himself.”

— Plato

“To prefer evil to good is not in human nature; and when a man is compelled to choose one of two evils, no one will choose the greater when he might have the less.”

— Plato

“For good nurture and education implant good constitutions.”

— Plato

“The eyes of the soul of the multitudes are unable to endure the vision of the divine.”

— Plato

“Knowledge is true opinion.”

— Plato

“No law or ordinance is mightier than understanding.”

— Plato

“I exhort you also to take part in the great combat, which is the combat of life, and greater than every other earthly conflict.”

— Plato