Famous Plato Quotes

Plato was an Athenian philosopher and founder of the Platonist school of thought and the academy. He was born on 21 May 429 BC and he was died on 347 BC at the age of 80 in Athens in Greece. Plato was the innovator of the written dialogue and dialectic forms in philosophy. He is also the namesake of platonic love. He was influenced by Socrates, Pythagoras, Heraclitus, Parmenides, Protagoras, Zeno of Elea. He was the foundation of Western Philosophy.

Here. Some Inspirational Quotes by Plato that will give you knowledge. Also, that quote about love, religion, politics, truth, and democracy will give you power.

"Never discourage anyone. Who continually makes progress, no matter how slow?" -Plato

"Your silence gives consent." -Plato

"Love is a serious mental disease." -Plato

"Only the dead have seen the end of the war." -Plato

"At a touch of love, everyone becomes a poet." -Plato

"The measure of a man is what he does with power." -Plato

"As empty vessels make the loudest sound, so they that have least with are the greatest babblers." -Plato

"Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle." -Plato

"One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors." -Plato

"Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something." -Plato

"Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge." -Plato

"Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything." -Plato

"There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot." -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

"A hero is born among a hundred, a wise man found among a thousand, but an accomplished one might not be found even among a hundred thousand men." -Plato

"Dictatorship naturally arises out of democracy, and the most aggravated form of tyranny and slavery out of the most extreme liberty."  -Plato

"There will be no end to the troubles of states, or of humanity itself, till philosophers become kings in this world, or till those, we now call kings and rulers really and truly become philosophers, and political power and philosophy thus come into the same hands." -Plato

"Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance."-Plato

"Knowledge without justice ought to be called cunning rather than wisdom." -Plato

"The man who makes everything that leads to happiness depends upon himself, and not upon other men, has adopted the very best plan for living happily. This is the man of moderation, the man of manly character and of wisdom." -Plato

"The excessive increase of anything causes a reaction in the opposite direction." -Plato

"Nothing in the affairs of men is worthy of great anxiety." -Plato

"The eyes of the soul of the multitudes are unable to endure the vision of the divine." -Plato

"Excess generally causes a reaction, and produces a change in the opposite direction, whether it be in the seasons or in individuals, or in governments." -Plato

"He who commits injustice is ever made more wretched than he who suffers it." -Plato

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

"Tyranny naturally arises out of democracy." -Plato

"And what, Socrates, is the food of the soul? Surely, I said, knowledge is the food of the soul." -Plato

"Twice and thrice over, as they say, good is it to repeat and review what is good." -Plato

"To love rightly is to love what is orderly and beautiful in an educated and disciplined way." -Plato

"When men speak ill of thee, live so as nobody may believe them." -Plato

"Then not only an old man but also a drunkard, become a second time a child." -Plato

"Then not only custom but also nature affirm that to do is more disgraceful than to suffer injustice and that justice is equality." -Plato

"philosophy begins in wonder." -Plato

"No law or ordinance is mightier than understanding." -Plato

"Justice means minding one's own business and not meddling with other men's concerns." -Plato

"One man can not practice many arts with success." -Plato

"All the gold that is under or upon the earth is not enough to give in exchange for virtue." -Plato

"This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears he is a protector." -Plato

"The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future life." -Plato

"Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind." -Plato

"Wisdom alone is the science of other sciences." -Plato