Plato was an ancient Greek philosopher born in Athens during the Classical period in Ancient Greece. In Athens, Plato founded the Academy, a philosophical school where he taught the philosophical doctrines that would later became known as Platonism. [Українська] [Русский]
Plato Quotes
We are twice armed if we fight with faith.
—Plato
No one ever teaches well who wants to teach, or governs well who wants to govern.
—Plato
There is no harm in repeating a good thing.
—Plato
Good actions give strength to ourselves and inspire good actions in others.
—Plato
Attention to health is life greatest hindrance.
—Plato
The soul takes nothing with her to the next world but her education and her culture.
At the beginning of the journey to the next world, one’s education and culture can either provide the greatest assistance, or else act as the greatest burden, to the person who has just died.
—Plato
I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.
—Plato
We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.
—Plato
Education is teaching our children to desire the right things.
—Plato
The right question is usually more important than the right answer.
—Plato
It is clear to everyone that astronomy at all events compels the soul to look upwards, and draws it from the things of this world to the other.
—Plato
We do not act rightly because we are excellent, in fact we achieve excellence by acting rightly.
—Plato
No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.
—Plato
Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue.
—Plato
I would teach children music, physics, and philosophy; but most importantly music, for the patterns in music and all the arts are the keys to learning.
—Plato
Ignorance of all things is an evil neither terrible nor excessive, nor yet the greatest of all; but great cleverness and much learning, if they be accompanied by a bad training, are a much greater misfortune.
—Plato
Education is the constraining and directing of youth towards that right reason, which the law affirms, and which the experience of the best of our elders has agreed to be truly right.
—Plato
Excellence is not a gift, but a skill that takes practice.
We do not act rightly because we are excellent, in fact we achieve excellence by acting rightly!
—Plato
Not one of them who took up in his youth with this opinion that there are no gods ever continued until old age faithful to his conviction.
—Plato
We do not learn; and what we call learning is only a process of recollection.
—Plato
In order for man to succeed in life, God provided him with two means, education and physical activity.
Not separately, one for the soul and the other for the body, but for the two together.
With these means, man can attain perfection.
—Plato
Honesty is for the most part less profitable than dishonesty.
—Plato
Let parents bequeath to their children not riches, but the spirit of reverence.
—Plato
The one who learns and learns and doesn’t practice is like the one who plows and plows and never plants.
—Plato
Apply yourself both now and in the next life.
Without effort, you cannot be prosperous.
Though the land be good, you cannot have an abundant crop without cultivation.
—Plato
Love is simply the name for the desire and pursuit of the whole.
—Plato
There are three classes of men; lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain.
—Plato
And what, Socrates, is the food of the soul?
Surely, I said, knowledge is the food of the soul.
—Plato
Justice in the life and conduct of the State is possible only as first it resides in the hearts and souls of the citizens.
—Plato
To love rightly is to love what is orderly and beautiful in an educated and disciplined way.
—Plato