Plato Quotes on Knowledge and Love#

Plato was a philosopher during the 5th century BCE. He was a student of Socrates and later taught Aristotle. He founded the Academy, an academic program which many consider to be the first Western university. Plato wrote many philosophical texts—at least 25. He dedicated his life to learning and teaching and is hailed as one of the founders of Western philosophy. Here we have a list of Plato Quotes

Plato Quotes on Love

At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.

Plato

Love is a serious mental disease.

Plato

Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods.

Plato

No one is a friend to his friend who does not love in return.

Plato

Plato Quotes on Knowledge

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

Plato

Thinking: the talking of the soul with itself.

Plato

The learning and knowledge that we have, is, at the most, but little compared with that of which we are ignorant.

Plato

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

Plato

Knowledge is true opinion

Plato

Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.

Plato

Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

Plato

Philosophy begins in wonder.

Plato

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

Plato

And what, Socrates, is the food of the soul? Surely, I said, knowledge is the food of the soul.

Plato

Courage Quotes by Plato

Courage is knowing what not to fear.

Plato

Courage is a kind of salvation

Plato

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Famous Quotes of Plato

He who is not a good servant will not be a good master.

Plato

Life must be lived as play.

Plato

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

Plato

Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.

Plato

Death is not the worst that can happen to men.

Plato

Democracy passes into despotism.

Plato

If a man neglects education, he walks lame to the end of his life.

Plato

Attention to health is life’s greatest hindrance.

Plato

Science is nothing but perception.

Plato

The greatest wealth is to live content with little.

Plato

Wisdom alone is the science of other sciences.

Plato

No one ever teaches well who wants to teach, or governs well who wants to govern.

Plato

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.

Plato

Better a little which is well done, than a great deal imperfectly.

Plato

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

Plato

This City is what it is because our citizens are what they are.

Plato

He who commits injustice is ever made more wretched than he who suffers it.

Plato

Not to help justice in her need would be an impiety.

Plato

All the gold which is under or upon the earth is not enough to give in exchange for virtue.

Plato

Wonder is the feeling of the philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.

Plato

There is no harm in repeating a good thing.

Plato

One man cannot practice many arts with success.

Plato

For the introduction of a new kind of music must be shunned as imperiling the whole state; since styles of music are never disturbed without affecting the most important political institutions.

Plato

Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue.

Plato

Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.

Plato

The beginning is the most important part of the work.

Plato