Quotes by Plato

Knowledge is the food of the soul.

Those who dont know must learn from those who do.

Then we shan’t regard anyone as a lover of knowledge or wisdom who is fussy about what he studies…

Knowledge unqualified is knowledge simply of something learned.

And whenever any one informs us that he has found a man who knows all the arts, and all things else that anybody knows, and every single thing with a higher degree of accuracy than any other man –whoever tells us this, I think that we can only imagine him to be a simple creature who is likely to have been deceived by some wizard or actor whom he met, and whom he thought all-knowing, because he himself was unable to analyze the nature of knowledge and ignorance and imitation.

Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance

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, ones education and culture can either provide the greatest assistance, or else act as the greatest burden, to the person who has just died.

Thats what education should be, I said, the art of orientation. Educators should devise the simplest and most effective methods of turning minds around. It shouldnt be the art of implanting sight in the organ, but should proceed on the understanding that the organ already has the capacity, but is improperly aligned and isnt facing the right way.

The most effective kind of education is that a child should play amongst lovely things.

The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future life

The soul of him who has education is whole and perfect and escapes the worst disease, but, if a mans education be neglected, he walks lamely through life and returns good for nothing to the world below.

Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion has no hold on the mind. Therefore do not use compulsion, but let early education be a sort of amusement; you will then be better able to discover the childs natural bent.

It is the task of the enlightened not only to ascend to learning and to see the good but to be willing to descend again to those prisoners and to share their troubles and their honors, whether they are worth having or not. And this they must do, even with the prospect of death.

Only the dead have seen the end of war.

For, let me tell you that the more the pleasures of the body fade away, the greater to me are the pleasure and charm of conversation.

You take the words in the sense which is most damaging to the argument.

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.

Courage is knowing what not to fear.

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

When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest or treaty and there is nothing to fear from them then he is always stirring up some wary or other in order that the people may require a leader.