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Plato Quotes - Page 6

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A dog has the soul of a philosopher.

A dog has the soul of a philosopher.

Cute, Dog, Animal

A wise ignorance is an essential part of knowledge.

Wise, Ignorance, Essentials

Seek truth while you are young, for if you do not, it will later escape your grasp

Education, Young, Ifs

Not every love, but only that which has a noble purpose, is noble and worthy of praise.

Purpose, Noble, Praise

Plato (1871). “The Dialogues of Plato”, p.475

To do wrong is the greatest of evils.

Evil

Gorgias, 469b (translated byWDWoodhead).There is a similar remark in the Crito, 49b.

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

Wisdom, Plato, Educational

Plato (1977). “The Portable Plato”, p.349, Penguin

The first step in learning is the destruction of human conceit.

Firsts, Steps, Destruction

Plato (1964). “The Dialogues”

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

Love, Inspirational, Education

Justice means minding one's own business and not meddling with other men's concerns.

Mean, Men, Justice

If the head and the body are to be well, you must begin by curing the soul.

Spiritual, Soul, Body

Plato (1871). “The Dialogues of Plato”, p.11

The greatest penalty of evil-doing is to grow into the likeness of a bad man.

Plato, Men, Evil

God is truth and light his shadow.

Truth, Light, Shadow

Socrates, Plato, Aristotle (1967). “Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study”

A grateful mind is a great mind which eventually attracts to itself great things.

Thank You, Thankful, Gratitude

Complacent ignorance is the most lethal sickness of the soul

Ignorance, Soul, Sickness

The soul of man is immortal and imperishable.

Men, Soul, Immortality

Plato, General Press (2016). “The Republic”, p.506, GENERAL PRESS

No one can escape his destiny.

Destiny

Gorgias, 512e (translated byWR M Lamb,1967).

Rhetoric is the art of ruling the minds of men.

Art, Plato, Philosophical

Knowledge is the rediscovering of our own insight.

Past, Insight

You ought not to heal the body without the soul, for this is the great error of our day in treating the human body.

Errors, Soul, Body

The essence of knowledge is self-knowledge.

Self, Essence, Self Knowledge

To be conquered by yourself is of all things most shameful and vile.

Philosophical, Greatest Victory, Shameful

The three wishes of every man: to be healthy, to be rich by honest means, and to be beautiful.

Beautiful, Mean, Men

No man should be angry with what is true.

Men, Knowing Who You Are, Should

Integrity is your destiny-it is the light that guides your way.

Integrity, Destiny, Light

Ignorance, the root and the stem of every evil.

Education, Wisdom, Plato

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