Quotes from Plato

In the world of knowledge, the idea of good appears last of all, and is seen only with effort.

Between knowledge of what really exists and ignorance of what does not exist lies the domain of opinion. It is more obscure than knowledge, but clearer than ignorance.

You need some knowledge to recognize knowledge, so where does the first knowledge come from?

Poets do not compose their poems with knowledge, but by some inborn talent and by inspiration, like seers and prophets who also say many fine things without any understanding of what they say.

The life which is unexamined is not worth living.

Knowledge is the food of the soul.

Of all the animals, the boy is the most unmanageable.

Do not train children to learning by force and harshness, but direct them to it by what amuses their minds.

We do not learn; and what we call learning is only a process of recollection.

The first step in learning is the destruction of human conceit.

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

He who is learning and learning and doesn't apply what he knows is like the one who is plowing and plowing and doesn't seed.

Thinking and spoken discourse are the same thing, except that what we call thinking is, precisely, the inward dialogue carried on by the mind with itself without spoken sound.

We do not learn, and that what we call learning is only a process of recollection.

The greatest privilege of a human life is to become a midwife to the awakening of the Soul in another person.

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

Wealth is well known to be a great comforter.

There is no such thing as a lovers' oath.

Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another.

Perhaps there is a pattern set up in the heavens for one who desires to see it, and having seen it, to find one in himself.

If someone separated the art of counting and measuring and weighing from all the other arts, what was left of each (of the others) would be, so to speak, insignificant.

When you swear, swear seriously and solemnly, but at the same time with a smile, for a smile is the twin sister of seriousness.

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

Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depend on Simplicity.