Quotes by Plato

Ignorance, the root and stem of all evil.

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

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

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

The first and greatest victory is to conquer yourself.

At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.

Courage is knowing what not to fear.

Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the gods.

Ideas are the source of all things.

Democracy… is a charming form of government, full of variety and disorder, and dispensing a sort of equality to equals and unequals alike.

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

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

Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.

The greatest wealth is to live content with little.

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.

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

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

We do not learn, and that what we call learning is only a process of recollection.

Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber.

Quotes by Plato part 2

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

The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future life.

A good decision is based on knowledge and not numbers.

Do not train a child to learn by force or harshness, but direct them to it by what amuses their minds, so that you may be better able to discover with accuracy the peculiar bent of the genius of each.

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.

The soul takes nothing with her to the next world but her education and her culture.

Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.

The first and greatest victory is to conquer yourself.

The soul of man is immortal and imperishable.

A hero is born among a hundred, a wise man is found among a thousand, but an accomplished one might not be found even among a hundred thousand men.

The most effective kind of education is that a child should play amongst lovely things.

To teach is to learn twice.

A wise man speaks because he has something to say; a fool because he has to say something.

Courage consists in knowing what is not to be feared.

No law or ordinance is mightier than understanding.

The greatest wealth is to live content with little.

There will be no end to the troubles of states, or of humanity itself, till philosophers become kings in this world, or till those we now call kings and rulers really and truly become philosophers.

Love is a serious mental disease.

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

He who is not a good servant will not be a good master.

Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body; but knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.

Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.

Courage is knowing what not to fear.

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

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

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