Plato Quotes
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All learning is in the learner, not the teacher.
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And is there anything more closely connected with wisdom than truth?
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To honor with hymns and panegyrics those who are still alive is not safe; a man should run his course and make a fair ending, and then we will praise him; and let praise be given equally to women as well as men who have been distinguished in virtue.
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[M]ere knowledge of the truth will not give you the art of persuasion.
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May not the wolf, as the proverb says, claim a hearing?
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I can show you that the art of calculation has to do with odd and even numbers in their numerical relations to themselves and to each other.
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God is not the author of all things, but of good only.
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It is right to give every man his due.
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To go to the world below, having a soul which is like a vessel full of injustice, is the last and worst of all the evils.
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The love, more especially, which is concerned with the good, and which is perfected in company with temperance and justice, whether among gods or men, has the greatest power, and is the source of all our happiness and harmony, and makes us friends with the gods who are above us, and with one another.
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I'm trying to think, don't confuse me with facts.
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No man's nature is able to know what is best for the social state of man; or, knowing, always able to do what is best.
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No one knows whether death may not be the greatest good that can happen to man.
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Wisest is he who knows what he does not know.
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Man is a biped without feathers.
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The blame is his who chooses: God is blameless.
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If it is naturally in you to be a good orator, a notable orator you will be when you have acquired knowledge and practice.
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When the citizens of a society can see and hear their leaders, then that society should be seen as one.
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He who has knowledge of the just and the good and beautiful ... will not, when in earnest, write them in ink.
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It is better to be wise, and not to seem so, than to seem wise, and not be so; yet men, for the most part, desire the contrary.
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Ignorance: the root of all evil.
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Man was not made for himself alone.