Mind Quotes by Plato

“Handwriting is the shackle of the mind.”

— Plato

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

— Plato

Music gives wings to the mind and flight to the imagination.

— Plato

Reality is created by the mind, we can change our reality by changing our mind.

— Plato

Aspiring minds must sometimes sustain loss.

— Plato

If a man be endowed with a generous mind, this is the best kind of nobility.

— Plato

Music is to the mind as air is to the body...

— Plato

When the mind is thinking it is talking to itself.

— Plato

The elements of instruction should be presented to the mind in childhood, but not with any compulsion.

— Plato

The graces once made up their mind - A shrine inviolate to find: And thus they found, and that with ease, The…

— Plato

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

— Plato

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

— Plato

Only a philosopher's mind grows wings, since its memory always keeps it as close as possible to those realities by being close…

— Plato

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

— Plato

Socrates isguilty of corrupting the minds of the young, and of believing indeities of his own invention instead of the gods recognized…

— Plato

We should not exercise the body without the joint assistance of the mind; nor exercise the mind without the joint assistance of…

— Plato

For the poet is a light winged and holy thing, and there is no invention in him until he has been inspired…

— Plato

Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depend on simplicity - I mean the true simplicity of a rightly…

— Plato

.. we shall not be properly educated ourselves, nor will the guardians whom we are training, until we can recognise the qualities…

— Plato

The music masters familiarize children's minds with rhythms and melodies, thus making them more civilized, more balanced, better adjusted in themselves, and…

— Plato

“If anyone comes to the gates of poetry and expects to become an adequate poet by acquiring expert knowledge of the subject…

— Plato

For neither birth, nor wealth, nor honors, can awaken in the minds of men the principles which should guide those who from…

— Plato

Let us describe the education of our men. What then is the education to be? Perhaps we could hardly find a better…

— Plato

There should be no element of slavery in learning. Enforced exercise does no harm to the body, but enforced learning will not…

— Plato

Justice in the individual is now defined analogously to justice in the state. The individual is wise and brave in virtue of…

— Plato

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

— Plato

The true lover of learning then must his earliest youth, as far as in him lies, desire all truth… He whose desires…

— Plato

Any one who has common sense will remember that the bewilderments of the eyes are of two kinds, and arise from two…

— Plato

“So when a man surrenders to the sound of music and lets its sweet, soft, mournful strains, which we have just described,…

— Plato

That's what education should be," I said, "the art of orientation. Educators should devise the simplest and most effective methods of turning…

— Plato

'But surely "blind" is just how you would describe men who have no true knowledge of reality, and no clear standard in…

— Plato

“Here's something else I'd like your opinion about," I said. "If he went back underground and sat down again in the same…

— Plato

You cannot conceive the many without the one...The study of the unit is among those that lead the mind on and turn…

— Plato

. . . the triumph of my art is in thoroughly examining whether the thought which the mind of the young man…

— Plato

This alone is to be feared: the closed mind, the sleeping imagination, the death of spirit.

— Plato

What is at issue is the conversion of the mind from the twilight of error to the truth, that climb up into…

— Plato

And may we not say, Adeimantus, that the most gifted minds, when they are ill- educated, become the worst?

— Plato

Harmony sinks deep into the recesses of the soul and takes its strongest hold there, bringing grace also to the body &…

— Plato

Remember how in that communion only, beholding beauty with the eye of the mind, he will be enabled to bring forth, not…

— Plato

“True opinions are a fine thing and do all sorts of good so long as they stay in their place; but they…

— Plato