Plato Quotes
The essence of knowledge is self-knowledge.
Plato
Quotes to Explore
Let us democratise knowledge. Let us universalise justice. Together, let us globalise compassion!
Kailash Satyarthi
I believe that we must maintain pride in the knowledge that the actions we take, based on our own decisions and choices as individuals, link directly to the magnificent challenge of transforming human history.
Daisaku Ikeda
Learning from the experiences of our ancestors, let us together create knowledge for all that benefits all.
Kailash Satyarthi
Summer is not obligatory. We can start an infernally hard jigsaw puzzle in June with the knowledge that, if there are enough rainy days, we may just finish it by Labor Day, but if not, there's no harm, no penalty. We may have better things to do.
Nancy Gibbs
The knowledge from an enlightened person breaks on the hard rocks of ignorance.
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
We know about the socially complex lives of elephants: how they communicate, how they bond, how they even seem to grieve. We have ethologists in the field and activists on the ground to thank for that knowledge.
K. A. Applegate
Men we shall have only as we make manhood the object of the work of the schools - intelligence, broad sympathy, knowledge of the world that was and is, and of the relation of men to it - this is the curriculum of that Higher Education which must underlie true life.
W. E. B. Du Bois
If one must fight or create, it is necessary that this be preceded by the broadest possible knowledge.
Karel Capek
If a little black girl in Montgomery, Alabama, or some far-reaching region sees something that I do and aspires to do it one day with the knowledge that she can achieve it, then hey, my work is done.
Octavia Spencer
When time and space and change converge, we find place. We arrive in Place when we resolve things. Place is peace of mind and understanding. Place is knowledge of self. Place is resolution.
Abdullah Ibrahim
The intellectual takes as a starting point his self and relates the world to his own sensibilities; the scientist accepts an existing field of knowledge and seeks to map out the unexplored terrain.
Daniel Bell
If knowledge and foresight are too penetrating and deep, unify them with ease and sincerity.
Xun Kuang
A great man, who was convinced that the truths of political and moral science are capable of the same certainty as those that form the system of physical science, even in those branches like astronomy that seem to approximate mathematical certainty. He cherished this belief, for it led to the consoling hope that humanity would inevitably make progress toward a state of happiness and improved character even as it has already done in its knowledge of the truth.
Marquis de Condorcet
Pilgrim's Progress, about a man that left his family, it didn't say why. I read considerable in it now and then. The statements was interesting, but tough.
Mark Twain
A third-party candidate is never treated equally. They look at you as a novelty, as cannon fodder. 'This is entertaining,' they think, 'but we'll go back to the Democrats and Republicans, because only they can run our government.' Which is baloney.
Jesse Ventura
Truth's like a dollar-piece, it's got two sides, and both are wanted to make it good currency.
John Buchan
The essence of knowledge is self-knowledge.
Plato
