Plato Quotes

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Plato Quote: “Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination and life to everything.”

Plato Quote: “Wise men speak because they have something to say; fools because they have to say something.”

Plato Quote: “The beginning is the most important part of the work.”

Plato Quote: “Character is simply habit long continued.”

Plato Quote: “No one is more hated than he who speaks the truth.”

Plato Quote: “Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle.”

Plato Quote: “You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation.”

Plato Quote: “A house that has a library in it has a soul.”

Plato Quote: “Love is a serious mental disease.”

Plato Quote: “Happiness springs from doing good and helping others.”

Plato Quote: “Only the dead have seen the end of war.”

Plato Quote: “The heaviest penalty for declining to rule is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself.”

Plato Quote: “Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.”

Plato Quote: “Necessity is the mother of invention.”

Plato Quote: “The measure of a man is what he does with power.”

Plato Quote: “Those who are able to see beyond the shadows and lies of their culture will never be understood let alone believed by the masses.”

Plato Quote: “No wealth can ever make a bad man at peace with himself”

Plato Quote: “A grateful mind is a great mind which eventually attracts to itself great things.”

Plato Quote: “In order for man to succeed in life, God provided him with two means, education and physical activity. Not separately, one for the soul and the other for the body, but for the two together. With these means, man can attain perfection.”

Plato Quote: “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.”

Plato Quote: “Ignorance, the root and the stem of every evil.”

Plato Quote: “The first and best victory is to conquer self.”

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

Plato Quote: “Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another.”

Plato Quote: “Those who tell the stories rule society.”

Plato Quote: “I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.”

Plato Quote: “Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.”

Plato Quote: “The worst form of injustice is pretended justice.”

Plato Quote: “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.”

Plato Quote: “The greatest wealth is to live content with little.”

Plato Quote: “The soul of man is immortal and imperishable.”

Plato Quote: “To conquer oneself is the best and noblest victory; to be vanquished by one’s own nature is the worst and most ignoble defeat.”

Plato Quote: “He who is not a good servant will not be a good master.”

Plato Quote: “Geometry existed before creation.”

Plato Quote: “The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.”

Plato Quote: “The true lover of knowledge naturally strives for truth, and is not content with common opinion, but soars with undimmed and unwearied passion till he grasps the essential nature of things.”

Plato Quote: “Nothing in the affairs of men is worthy of great anxiety.”

Plato Quote: “When men speak ill of thee, live so that nobody will believe them.”

Plato Quote: “Lack of activity destroys the good condition of every human being.”

Plato Quote: “I’m trying to think, don’t confuse me with facts.”

Plato Quote: “The wise man will want to be ever with him who is better than himself.”

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

Plato Quote: “Philosophy is the highest music.”

Plato Quote: “According to Greek mythology, humans were originally created with four arms, four legs and a head with two faces. Fearing their power, Zeus split them into two separate parts, condemning them to spend their lives in search of their other halves.”

Plato Quote: “Courage is knowing what not to fear.”

Plato Quote: “Any man may easily do harm, but not every man can do good to another.”

Plato Quote: “An empty vessel makes the loudest sound, so they that have the least wit are the greatest babblers.”

Plato Quote: “The object of education is to teach us to love what is beautiful.”

Plato Quote: “Education is teaching our children to desire the right things.”

Plato Quote: “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.”

Plato Quote: “There is truth in wine and children.”

Plato Quote: “You should not honor men more than truth.”

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

Plato Quote: “The madness of love is the greatest of heaven’s blessings.”

Plato Quote: “Do not train a child to learn by force or harshness; but direct them to it by what amuses their minds, so that you may be better able to discover with accuracy the peculiar bent of the genius of each.”

Plato Quote: “The penalty that good men pay for not being interested in politics is to be governed by men worse than themselves.”

Plato Quote: “He was a wise man who invented God.”

Plato Quote: “You’re my Star, a stargazer too, and I wish that I were Heaven, with a billion eyes to look at you!”

Plato Quote: “Death is not the worst that can happen to men.”

Plato Quote: “True friendship can exist only between equals.”

Plato Quote: “As the builders say, the larger stones do not lie well without the lesser.”

Plato Quote: “Writing is the geometry of the soul.”

Plato Quote: “Of all the animals, the boy is the most unmanageable.”

Plato Quote: “There should exist among the citizens neither extreme poverty nor again excessive wealth, for both are productive of great evil.”

Plato Quote: “If women are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach them the same things.”

Plato Quote: “Love is the pursuit of the whole.”

Plato Quote: “All the gold which is under or upon the earth is not enough to give in exchange for virtue.”

Plato Quote: “At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.”

Plato Quote: “Courage is a kind of salvation.”

Plato Quote: “The most virtuous are those who content themselves with being virtuous without seeking to appear so.”

Plato Quote: “False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.”

Plato Quote: “Is there a perfect world?”

Plato Quote: “For this feeling of wonder shows that you are a philosopher, since wonder is the only beginning of philosophy.”

Plato Quote: “The highest reach of injustice is to be deemed just when you are not.”

Plato Quote: “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?”

Plato Quote: “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.”

Plato Quote: “Musical innovation is full of danger to the State, for when modes of music change, the laws of the State always change with them.”

Plato Quote: “Perhaps there is a pattern set up in the heavens for one who desires to see it, and having seen it, to find one in himself.”

Plato Quote: “For to fear death, my friends, is only to think ourselves wise without really being wise, for it is to think that we know what we do not know. For no one knows whether death may not be the greatest good that can happen to man.”

Plato Quote: “When there is an income tax, the just man will pay more and the unjust less on the same amount of income.”

Plato Quote: “The man who finds that in the course of his life he has done a lot of wrong often wakes up at night in terror, like a child with a nightmare, and his life is full of foreboding: but the man who is conscious of no wrongdoing is filled with cheerfulness and with the comfort of old age.”

Plato Quote: “And we have made of ourselves living cesspools, and driven doctors to invent names for our diseases.”

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

Plato Quote: “Books are immortal sons defying their sires.”

Plato Quote: “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.”

Plato Quote: “I thought to myself: I am wiser than this man; neither of us probably knows anything that is really good, but he thinks he has knowledge, when he has not, while I, having no knowledge, do not think I have.”

Plato Quote: “The soul takes flight to the world that is invisible but there arriving she is sure of bliss and forever dwells in paradise.”

Plato Quote: “A dog has the soul of a philosopher.”

Plato Quote: “Everything that deceives may be said to enchant.”

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

Plato Quote: “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.”

Plato Quote: “Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.”

Plato Quote: “How could they see anything but the shadows if they were never allowed to move their heads?”

Plato Quote: “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.”

Plato Quote: “Have you ever sensed that our soul is immortal and never dies?”

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