Quotes from Plato

Mankind will never see an end of trouble until lovers of wisdom come to hold political power, or the holders of power become lovers of wisdom

The wise man will want to be ever with him who is better than himself.

I know not how I may seem to others, but to myself I am but a small child wandering upon the vast shores of knowledge, every now and then finding a small bright pebble to content myself with

Thinking is the soul talking to itself.

Ignorance, the root and the stem of every evil.

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

There are three classes of men; lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain.

And isn't it a bad thing to be deceived about the truth, and a good thing to know what the truth is? For I assume that by knowing the truth you mean knowing things as they really are.

There is far greater peril in buying knowledge than in buying meat and drink.

The object of knowledge is what exists and its function to know about reality.

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

Do not expect justice where might is right.

They (the poets) are to us in a manner the fathers and authors of the wisdom.

We are like people looking for something they have in their hands all the time; we're looking in all directions except at the thing we want, which is probably why we haven't found it.

Knowledge of the soul is the only universal truth and the only wisdom - all other knowledge is transient.

The god, O men, seems to me to be really wise; and by his oracle to mean this, that the wisdom of this world is foolishness and of none effect.

Those whose hearts are fixed on Reality itself deserve the title of Philosophers.

Wisdom always makes men fortunate: for by wisdom no man could ever err, and therefore he must act rightly and succeed, or his wisdom would be wisdom no longer.

...there are some who are naturally fitted for philosophy and political leadership, while the rest should follow their lead and let philosophy alone.

If you are wise, all men will be your friends and kindred, for you will be useful.

Ideas are the source of all things

And is there anything more closely connected with wisdom than truth?

Wisdom is a blaze, kindled by a leaping spark.

'That is the story. Do you think there is any way of making them believe it?' ' Not in the first generation', he said, 'but you might succeed with the second and later generations.'