Quotes By Plato

A good decision is based on knowledge and not on numbers.

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

Entire ignorance is not so terrible or extreme an evil, and is far from being the greatest of all; too much cleverness and too much learning, accompanied with ill bringing-up, are far more fatal.

Only the dead have seen the end of war.

Better a little which is well done, than a great deal imperfectly.

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.

The good is the beautiful.

At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.

I would fain grow old learning many things.

No one is a friend to his friend who does not love in return.

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.

One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.

How can you prove whether at this moment we are sleeping, and all our thoughts are a dream; or whether we are awake, and talking to one another in the waking state?

Justice in the life and conduct of the State is possible only as first it resides in the hearts and souls of the citizens.

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

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.

The greatest wealth is to live content with little.

Wonder is the feeling of the philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.

They do certainly give very strange, and newfangled, names to diseases.

Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.

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

The highest reach of injustice is to be deemed just when you are not.

Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something.

Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.

Necessity... the mother of invention.

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

Man is a wingless animal with two feet and flat nails.

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

He who is not a good servant will not be a good master.

Science is nothing but perception.