Quotes by Plato

Explore a curated collection of 171 quotes by Plato. Discover timeless wisdom, insightful thoughts, and memorable words that have inspired readers around the world. Browse through the gallery below and click on any quote to read more.

Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At t — Plato
You're my Star, a stargazer too,and I wish that I were Heaven,with a billion eyes to look at you! — Plato
Education is teaching our children to desire the right things. — Plato
The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men. — Plato
Do not train a child to learn by force or harshness; but direct them to it by what amuses their minds, so that you may b — Plato
One of the penalties of refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors. — Plato
In politics we presume that everyone who knows how to get votes knows how to administer a city or a state. When we are i — Plato
False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil. — Plato
Philosophy is the highest music. — Plato
Then the lover, who is true and no counterfeit, must of necessity be loved by his love. — Plato
Ideas are the source of all things — Plato
Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous. — Plato
You should not honor men more than truth. — Plato
Similarly with regard to truth, won't we say that a soul is maimed if it hates a voluntary falsehood, cannot endure to h — Plato
He was a wise man who invented God. — Plato
Wise men talk because they have something to say; Fools, because they have to say something. — Plato
The man who makes everything that leads to happiness depends upon himself, and not upon other men, has adopted the very — Plato
Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history. — Plato
Writing is the geometry of the soul. — Plato
Calligraphy is a geometry of the soul which manifests itself physically. — Plato