Plato Quotes

"No law or ordinance is mightier than understanding."
-Plato

"There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot."
-Plato in Anger quotes.

"No human thing is of serious importance."
-Plato

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

"If one has made a mistake, and fails to correct it, one has made a greater mistake."
-Plato

"Death is not the worst that can happen to men."
-Plato

"Thinking is the talking of the soul with itself."
-Plato

"He who does not desire power is fit to hold it."
-Plato

"Courage is knowing what not to fear."
-Plato

"Ignorance, the root and the stem of every evil."
-Plato in Ignorance quotes.

"If women are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach them the same things. "
-Plato

"The qualities which a man seeks in his beloved are those characteristics of his own soul, whether he knows it or not."
-Plato

"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 in Love quotes.

"Good actions give strength to ourselves and inspire good actions in others."
-Plato in Actions quotes.

"Never discourage anyone...who continually makes progress, no matter how slow."
-Plato in Progress quotes.

"Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another."
-Plato

"The soul of man is immortal and imperishable."
-Plato in Immortality quotes.

"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."
-Plato in Friendship quotes.

"Nothing in the affairs of men is worthy of great anxiety."
-Plato

"Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, a charm to sadness, gaiety and life to everything. It is the essence of order, and leads to all that is god, just, and beautiful, of which it is the invisible, but never less, dazzaling, passionate, and eternal form."
-Plato

"Knowledge is true opinion."
-Plato

"You cannot conceive the many without the one."
-Plato

"And the only life which looks down upon the life of political ambition is that of true philosophy. Do you know of any other?"
-Plato

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

"Musical training is a more potent instrument than any other, because rhythm and harmony find their way into the inward places of the soul, on which they mightily fasten imparting grace."
-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

"The partisan, when he is engaged in a dispute, cares nothing about the rights of the question, but is anxious only to convince his hearers of his own assertions."
-Plato