Knows Quotes by Plato

I to die, and you to live. Which is better God only knows.

— Plato

Do thine own work, and know thyself.

— Plato

Wisest is he who knows what he does not know.

— Plato

In order to be a good soldier it is necessary to know how to dance.

— Plato

Only the dead will know the end of the war.

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

— Plato

No man's nature is able to know what is best for the social state of man; or, knowing, always able to do…

— Plato

For the rhapsode ought to interpret the mind of the poet to his hearers, but how can he interpret him well unless…

— Plato

To fear death, my friends, is only to think ourselves wise without really being wise, for it is to think that we…

— Plato

When a person supposes that he knows, and does not know; this appears to be the great source of all the errors…

— Plato

Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.

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He, O men, is the wisest, who, like Socrates, knows that his wisdom is in truth worth nothing.

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You get to know someone better by playing for an hour than by talking for a year.

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And the first step, as you know, is always what matters most, particularly when we are dealing with those who are young…

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The disposition of noble dogs is to be gentle with people they know and the opposite with those they don't know...How, then,…

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I know too well that these arguments from probabilities are imposters, and unless great caution is observed in the use of them,…

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Remember our words, then, and whatever is your aim let virtue be the condition of the attainment of your aim, and know…

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It gives me great pleasure to converse with the aged. They have been over the road that all of us must travel,…

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Someday, in the distant future, our grand-children' s grand-children will develop a new equivalent of our classrooms. They will spend many hours…

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We will be better and braver if we engage and inquire than if we indulge in the idle fancy that we already…

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When two friends are in the mood to chat, we have to go about it in a gentler and more dialectical way.…

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For not by art does the poet sing, but by power divine. Had he learned by rules of art, he would have…

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And all knowledge, when separated from justice and virtue, is seen to be cunning and not wisdom; wherefore make this your first…

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And the true order of going, or being led by another, to the things of love, is to begin from the beauties…

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“But that we shall be better and braver and less helpless if we think that we ought to enquire, than we should…

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I don't know anything that gives me greater pleasure, or profit either, than talking or listening to philosophy. But when it comes…

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No one knows whether death may not be the greatest of all blessings for a man, yet men fear it as if…

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Let him know how to choose the mean and avoid the extremes on either side, as far as possible. . . .…

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

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The qualities which a man seeks in his beloved are those characteristics of his own soul, whether he knows it or not.

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The greater part of instruction is being reminded of things you already know.

— Plato

I know nothing more worthy of a man's ambition than that his son be the best of men.

— Plato

Wonder is the beginning of the desire to know the beautiful and the good.

— Plato

In good speaking, should not the mind of the speaker know the truth of the matter about which he is to speak.

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As to the artists, do we not know that he only of them whom love inspires has the light of fame?-he whom…

— Plato

No one knows whether death is really the greatest blessing a man can have, but they fear it is the greatest curse,…

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No one knows whether death may not be the greatest good that can happen to man.

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To fear death, gentlemen, is no other then to think oneself wise when one is not, to think one knows what one…

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Was not this ... what we spoke of as the great advantage of wisdom -- to know what is known and what…

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I know not how I may seem to others, but to myself I am but a small child wandering upon the vast…

— Plato