Plato Quotes about Truth

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False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.

False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.

Plato

Truth, Attitude, Lying

Plato (2011). “The Final Days of Socrates: Euthyphro, Apology, Crito and Phaedo”, p.136, Cosimo, Inc.

Honesty is for the most par less profitable than dishonesty.

Plato

Truth, Honesty, Plato

You should not honor men more than truth.

Plato

Truth, Honesty, Pride

God is truth and light his shadow.

Plato

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”

Truth is its own reward.

Plato

Truth, Plato, Rewards

What essence is to generation, that truth is to belief.

Plato

Truth, Essence, Generations

The qualities of number appear to lead to the apprehension of truth.

Plato

Truth, Numbers, Quality

Plato (1956). “The Republic”

They deem him their worst enemy who tells them the truth.

Plato

Truth, Honesty, Plato

Plato (1977). “The Portable Plato”, p.256, Penguin

Let us affirm what seems to be the truth, that, whether one is or is not, one and the others in relation to themselves and one another, all of them, in every way, are and are not, and appear to be and appear not to be.

Plato

Truth, Way, Relation

Plato (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Plato (Illustrated)”, p.1640, Delphi Classics

Seven years of silent inquiry are needful for a man to learn the truth, but fourteen in order to learn how to make it known to his fellow-men.

Plato

Truth, Men, Order

All I would ask you to be thinking of is the truth and not Socrates.

Plato

Truth, Thinking, Asks

Plato, Xenophon, Tom Griffith (2009). “On Socrates”, p.317, Collector's Library

Wherefore also these Kinds [elements] occupied different places even before the universe was organised and generated out of them. Before that time, in truth, all these were in a state devoid of reason or measure, but when the work of setting in order this Universe was being undertaken, fire and water and earth and air, although possessing some traces of their known nature, were yet disposed as everything is likely to be in the absence of God; and inasmuch as this was then their natural condition, God began by first marking them out into shapes by means of forms and numbers.

Plato

Truth, Mean, Science