Quotes By Plato

Ignorance, the root and stem of all evil.

No man should bring children into the world who is unwilling to persevere to the end in their nature and education.

Wealth is well known to be a great comforter.

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

For the introduction of a new kind of music must be shunned as imperiling the whole state; since styles of music are never disturbed without affecting the most important political institutions.

Virtue is relative to the actions and ages of each of us in all that we do.

And what, Socrates, is the food of the soul? Surely, I said, knowledge is the food of the soul.

Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.

Rhetoric is the art of ruling the minds of men.

Tyranny naturally arises out of democracy.

Cunning... is but the low mimic of wisdom.

Science is nothing but perception.

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

I shall assume that your silence gives consent.

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.

Excess of liberty, whether it lies in state or individuals, seems only to pass into excess of slavery.

Not to help justice in her need would be an impiety.

Those who intend on becoming great should love neither themselves nor their own things, but only what is just, whether it happens to be done by themselves or others.

There is no such thing as a lovers' oath.

Philosophy begins in wonder.

Thinking: the talking of the soul with itself.

Man - a being in search of meaning.

Then not only custom, but also nature affirms that to do is more disgraceful than to suffer injustice, and that justice is equality.

Man never legislates, but destinies and accidents, happening in all sorts of ways, legislate in all sorts of ways.

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

Democracy passes into despotism.

A hero is born among a hundred, a wise man is found among a thousand, but an accomplished one might not be found even among a hundred thousand men.

If particulars are to have meaning, there must be universals.

Nothing can be more absurd than the practice that prevails in our country of men and women not following the same pursuits with all their strengths and with one mind, for thus, the state instead of being whole is reduced to half.

The wisest have the most authority.