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Truth Quotes by Plato

72 Truth quotes by Plato

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Plato’s sayings warn that many learn falsehoods while a single voice dares to speak truth. He describes the philosopher as someone who seeks unchanging reality rather than shifting opinions. The quotes also stress that true knowledge hates lies and that honesty is closely tied to wisdom.

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You should not honor men more than truth.

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God is truth and light his shadow.

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Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.

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Geometry draws the soul towards truth.

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Truth is its own reward.

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There is truth in wine and children

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Honesty is for the most par less profitable than dishonesty.

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Truth is the beginning of every good to the gods, and of every good to man.

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In an honest man there is always something of a child.

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They deem him their worst enemy who tells them the truth.

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

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No one is more hated than he who speaks the truth.

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Geometry will draw the soul toward truth and create the spirit of philosophy.

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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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Whereas the truth is that the State in which the rulers are most reluctant to govern is always the best and most…

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And isn't it a bad thing to be deceived about the truth, and a good thing to know what the truth is?…

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Truth is the beginning of every good thing, both in heaven and on earth; and he who would be blessed and happy…

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“Since then, as philosophers prove, appearance tyrannizes over truth and is lord of happiness, to appearance I must devote myself.”

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The truth is that we isolate a particular kind of love and appropriate it for the name of love, which really belongs…

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“Of course, he said, he who is of a certain nature, is like those who are of a certain nature; he who…

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...in every man there is an eye of the soul, which...is more precious far than ten thousand bodily eyes, for by it…

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Truthfulness. He will never willingly tolerate an untruth, but will hate it as much as he loves truth... And is there anything…

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“We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid…

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But he who has been earnest in the love of knowledge and of true wisdom, and has exercised his intellect more than…

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Let us affirm what seems to be the truth, that, whether one is or is not, one and the others in relation…

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“Similarly with regard to truth, won't we say that a soul is maimed if it hates a voluntary falsehood, cannot endure to…

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“But the truth is, O men of Athens, that God only is wise; and by his answer he intends to show that…

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And now I depart hence condemned by you to suffer the penalty of death, and they, too, go their ways condemned by…

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Again, truth should be highly valued; if, as we were saying, a lie is useless to the gods, and useful only as…

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“There's no chance of their having a conscious glimpse of the truth as long as they refuse to disturb the things they…

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Then may we not fairly plead in reply that our true lover of knowledge naturally strives for truth, and is not content…

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“And if the truth of all things that are is always in our soul, then the soul must be immortal, so you…

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

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“All the same, we ought to point out that if the kinds of poetry and representation which are designed merely to give…

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Wherefore also these Kinds [elements] occupied different places even before the universe was organised and generated out of them. Before that time,…

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The cause of all the blunders committed by man arises from this excessive self-love. For the lover is blinded by the object…

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In the world of knowledge, the essential Form of Good is the limit of our inquiries, and can barely be perceived; but,…

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“...when he looks at Beauty in the only way that Beauty can be seen - only then will it become possible for…

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“They deem him their worst enemy who tells them the truth. -Plato, philosopher (427-347 BCE)”

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[M]ere knowledge of the truth will not give you the art of persuasion.

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