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Best 139 Quotes by Plato – Page 2 of 5

“Knowledge is the food of the soul.”

“Knowledge without justice ought to be called cunning rather than wisdom.”

“Man is a being in search of meaning.”

“Necessity is the mother of invention.”

“Neither the uneducated and uninformed of the truth, nor yet those who never make an end of their education, will be able ministers of State; not the former, because they have no single aim of duty which is the rule of all their actions, private as well as public; nor the latter, because they will not act at all except upon compulsion, fancying that they are already dwelling apart in the islands of the blest.”

“Never discourage anyone who continually makes progress, no matter how slow.”

“No human thing is of serious importance.”

“No man should bring children into the world who is unwilling to persevere to the end in their nature and education.”

“No one is more hated than he who speaks the truth.”

“No wealth can ever make a bad man at peace with himself.”

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

“People are like dirt. They can either nourish you and help you grow as a person or they can stunt your growth and make you wilt and die.”

“Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.”

“Poverty doesn’t come because of the decrease of wealth but because of the increase of desires.”

“Reality is created by the mind, we can change our reality by changing our mind.”

“That man is wisest who, like Socrates, realizes that his wisdom is worthless.”

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

“The first and greatest victory is to conquer yourself; to be conquered by yourself is of all things most shameful and vile.”

“The greatest wealth is to live content with little.”

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

“The one who learns and learns and doesn’t practice is like the one who plows and plows and never plants.”

“The power and capacity of learning exists in the soul already.”

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

“The right question is usually more important than the right answer.”

“The untrained mind keeps up a running commentary, labelling everything, judging everything. Best to ignore that commentary. Don’t argue or resist, just ignore. Deprived of attention and interest, this voice gets quieter and quieter and eventually just shuts up.”

“The wisest have the most authority.”

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

“There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.”

“There is no harm in repeating a good thing.”

“There is truth in wine and children.”

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