Quotes Compiled - Plato


"He who does not know how to be silent will not know how to speak."
/ Plato /


"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."
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"Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance."
~~ Plato


"When a person supposes that he knows, and does not know; this appears to be the great source of all the errors of the intellect."

/ Plato /


"Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly."
/ Plato /


"He who is only an athlete is too crude, too vulgar, too much a savage.
He who is a scholar only is too soft. to effiminate.
The ideal citizen is the scholar athlete, the man of thought and a man of action."
/ Plato /


"The one who learns and learns and doesn't practice is like the one who plows and plows and never plants."
/ Plato /


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


Music gives a soul to the universe
wings to the mind,
flight to the imagination,
and life to everything.
~~ Plato


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


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"Never discourage anyone who continually makes progress, no matter how slow."
-- Plato


"No one is more hated than he who speaks the truth."
-- Plato


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