“Beauty is the splendor of truth. (Die Schönheit ist der Glanz der Wahrheit)” — Plato Copy Share Image
Seek truth while you are young, for if you do not, it will later escape your grasp — Plato Copy Share Image
The true lover of knowledge naturally strives for truth, and is not content with common opinion, but soars with undimmed and unwearied… — Plato Copy Share Image
What is at issue is the conversion of the mind from the twilight of error to the truth, that climb up into… — Plato Copy Share Image
Seven years of silent inquiry are needful for a man to learn the truth, but fourteen in order to learn how to… — Plato Copy Share Image
My plainness of speech makes people hate me, and what is their hatred but a proof that I am speaking the truth. — Plato Copy Share Image
Love is a madness produced by an unsatisfiable rational desire to understand the ultimate truth about the world. — Plato Copy Share Image
Renouncing the honors at which the world aims, I desire only to know the truth... and to the maximum of power, I… — Plato Copy Share Image
The philosopher is in love with truth, that is, not with the changing world of sensation, which is the object of opinion,… — Plato Copy Share Image
“The rhetorician need not know the truth about things; he has only to discover some way of persuading the ignorant that he… — Plato Copy Share Image
“We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid… — Plato Copy Share Image
“Similarly with regard to truth, won't we say that a soul is maimed if it hates a voluntary falsehood, cannot endure to… — Plato Copy Share Image
When the mind's eye rests on objects illuminated by truth and reality, it understands and comprehends them, and functions intelligently; but when… — Plato Copy Share Image
“How you, O Athenians, have been affected by my accusers, I cannot tell; but I know that they almost made me forget… — Plato Copy Share Image
“Men say that we ought not to enquire into the supreme God and the nature of the universe, nor busy ourselves in… — Plato Copy Share Image
“My opinion is: Truth must be absolute and that you Mr. Protagoras, are absolutely in error. Since this is indeed my opinion,… — Plato Copy Share Image
A man's duty is to find out where the truth is, or if he cannot, at least to take the best possible… — Plato Copy Share Image
Those who are not schooled and practised in truth [who are not honest and upright men] can never manage aright the government,… — Plato Copy Share Image
“My dear Homer, if you are really only once removed from the truth, with reference to virtue, instead of being twice removed… — Plato Copy Share Image
In the world of knowledge, the essential Form of Good is the limit of our inquiries, and can barely be perceived; but,… — Plato Copy Share Image
Strange times are these in which we live when old and young are taught in falsehood's school, and the one man that… — Plato Copy Share Image
Truthfulness. He will never willingly tolerate an untruth, but will hate it as much as he loves truth... And is there anything… — Plato Copy Share Image
In good speaking, should not the mind of the speaker know the truth of the matter about which he is to speak. — Plato Copy Share Image
A library of wisdom, is more precious than all wealth, and all things that are desirable cannot be compared to it. Whoever… — Plato Copy Share Image
There is nothing so delightful as the hearing, or the speaking of truth. For this reason, there is no conversation so agreeable… — Plato Copy Share Image
Each man is capable of doing one thing well. If he attempts several, he will fail to achieve distinction in any. — Plato Copy Share
You may be sure, dear Crito, that inaccurate language is not only in itself a mistake: it implants evil in men's souls. — Plato Copy Share
“If men learn this, it will implant forgetfulness in their souls; they will cease to exercise memory because they rely on that which is… — Plato Copy Share
Any city, however small, is in fact divided into two, one the city of the poor, the other of the rich; these are at… — Plato Copy Share
“The love of man to woman is a thing common and of course, and at first partakes more of instinct and passion than of… — Plato Copy Share
Strange times are these in which we live when old and young are taught in falsehood's school, and the one man that dares to… — Plato Copy Share
For let me tell you, that the more the pleasures of the body fade away, the greater to me is the pleasure and charm… — Plato Copy Share
“What shall we say about those spectators, then, who can see a plurality of beautiful things, but not beauty itself, and who are incapable… — Plato Copy Share
We must, if we are to be consistent, and if we re to have a real pedigree herd, mate the best of our men… — Plato Copy Share
![“Those who are not schooled and practised in truth [who are not honest and upright men] can never manage aright the government, nor yet can those who spend their lives as closet philosophers; because the former have no high purpose to guide their actions, while the latter keep aloof from public life.” quote by Plato](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/f79/plato-103_action_those-who-are-not-schooled-and-practised_1210851.jpg)
