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Plato Quotes about Wisdom

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

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

Wise, Wisdom, Witty

Thinking is the soul talking to itself.

Wisdom, Thinking, Talking

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

Wisdom, Plato, Business

Plato (1871). “The Dialogues of Plato”, p.83

Do not expect justice where might is right.

Wisdom, Justice, Might

The wise man will want to be ever with him who is better than himself.

Wise, Wisdom, Men

Plato (2012). “The Trial and Death of Socrates: Four Dialogues”, p.60, Courier Corporation

Nothing in the affairs of men is worthy of great anxiety.

Life, Death, Wisdom

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

Love, Wisdom, Plato

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

Wisdom, Plato, Educational

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

Ignorance, the root and the stem of every evil.

Education, Wisdom, Plato

Wisdom always makes men fortunate: for by wisdom no man could ever err, and therefore he must act rightly and succeed, or his wisdom would be wisdom no longer.

Wisdom, Men, Would Be

Plato (2010). “The Works of Plato: Charmides, Lysis, Other Dialogues and the Laws”, p.233, Cosimo, Inc.

If you are wise, all men will be your friends and kindred, for you will be useful.

Wise, Wisdom, Men

Catholic Way Publishing, Aristotle, Plato (2015). “The Philosophy Collection [97 Books]”, p.6020, Catholic Way Publishing

The cure of many diseases is unknown to physicians because they are ignorant of the whole... For the part can never be well unless the whole is well.

Wise, Wisdom, Clever

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

Life, Wise, Wisdom

They (the poets) are to us in a manner the fathers and authors of the wisdom.

Wisdom, Father, Poetry

The god, O men, seems to me to be really wise; and by his oracle to mean this, that the wisdom of this world is foolishness and of none effect.

Wise, Wisdom, Mean

Philosophy is the highest music.

Music, Wisdom, Plato

Plato (2016). “Apology Of Socrates And Crito”, p.55, Read Books Ltd

Was not this ... what we spoke of as the great advantage of wisdom -- to know what is known and what is unknown to us?

Wisdom, Advantage, Spokes

Plato (2016). “The Complete Works of Plato (Unabridged): From the greatest Greek philosopher, known for The Republic, Symposium, Apology, Phaedrus, Laws, Crito, Phaedo, Timaeus, Meno, Euthyphro, Gorgias, Parmenides, Protagoras, Statesman and Critias”, p.103, e-artnow (Open Publishing)

Cunning... is but the low mimic of wisdom.

Wisdom, Philosophical, Mimicking

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