Plato’s Most Memorable Quotes

The measure of a man is what he does with power.

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.

Ignorance, the root and stem of all evil.

At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.

Courage is knowing what not to fear.

Wise men speak because they have something to say; fools because they have to say something.

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

The highest form of education is to teach one to think critically.

Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.

The first and greatest victory is to conquer yourself.

We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark, but the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.

He who commits injustice is ever made more wretched than he who suffers it.

A good decision is based on knowledge and not on numbers.

The heaviest penalty for declining to rule is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself.

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

Excess generally causes reaction, and produces a change in the opposite direction, whether it be in the seasons, or in individuals, or in governments.

The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.

Plato’s Most Memorable Quotes part 2

I exhort you also to take part in the great combat, which is the combat of life, and greater than every other earthly conflict.

Even the gods love jokes.

The body is the soul’s prison unless the five senses are fully developed and open to the world.

Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything.

Love is a serious mental disease.

The key is not to identify yourself with either the traditional or modern, but to find your own unique voice and perspective.

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

An empty vessel makes the loudest sound, so they that have the least wit are the greatest babblers.

The greatest wealth is to live content with little.

Ignorance, the root and stem of all evil.

Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.

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.

Wise men speak because they have something to say; fools because they have to say something.

We are twice armed if we fight with faith.

No law or ordinance is mightier than understanding.

The excessive increase of anything often causes a reaction in the opposite direction.

At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.

An empty vessel makes the loudest sound, so they that have the least wit are the greatest babblers.

There is truth in wine and children.

The measure of a man is what he does with power.

The first and greatest victory is to conquer yourself.

Ideas are the source of all things.

Ignorance, the root and stem of all evil.

Thinking is the talking of the soul with itself.

At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.

Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.

The key is not to identify yourself with either the traditional or modern, but to find your own unique voice and perspective.

The highest form of education is to teach one to think critically.