Quotes

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

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

“When the mind is thinking it is talking to itself.” Plato

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

“Wisdom alone is the science of other sciences.” Plato

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

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

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

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

“Tyranny naturally arises out of democracy.” Plato

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

“I shall assume that your silence gives consent.” Plato

“There's a victory, and defeat; the first and best of victories, the lowest and worst of defeats which each man gains or sustains at the hands not of another, but of himself.” Plato

“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.” Plato

“For good nurture and education implant good constitutions.” Plato

“The eyes of the soul of the multitudes are unable to endure the vision of the divine.” Plato

“Knowledge is true opinion.” Plato

“No law or ordinance is mightier than understanding.” Plato

“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

“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.” Plato

“The excessive increase of anything causes a reaction in the opposite direction.” Plato

“No trace of slavery ought to mix with the studies of the freeborn man. No study, pursued under compulsion, remains rooted in the memory.” Plato

“The wisest have the most authority.” Plato

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

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

“Then not only an old man, but also a drunkard, becomes a second time a child.” Plato

“The good is the beautiful.” Plato

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

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