100 quotes by 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

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“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

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“Wealth is well known to be a great comforter.” — Plato

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

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

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“The man who makes everything that leads to happiness depends upon himself, and not upon other men, has adopted the very best plan for living happily. This is the man of moderation, the man of manly character and of wisdom.” — Plato

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“Thinking: the talking of the soul with itself.” — Plato

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

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“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.” — Plato

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“The learning and knowledge that we have, is, at the most, but little compared with that of which we are ignorant.” — Plato

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

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“Knowledge without justice ought to be called cunning rather than wisdom.” — Plato

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

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“Knowledge is true opinion.” — Plato

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

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

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“I would fain grow old learning many things.” — Plato

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“Life must be lived as play.” — Plato

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“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

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

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

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“One man cannot practice many arts with success.” — Plato

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“To love rightly is to love what is orderly and beautiful in an educated and disciplined way.” — Plato

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“The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life.” — Plato

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“Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death?” — Plato

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