Wisdom Quotes by Plato

Thinking is the soul talking to itself.

— Plato

You must base the Wisdom on Love.

— Plato

Cunning... is but the low mimic of wisdom.

— Plato

He was a wise man who invented beer.

— Plato

The wise are doubtful.

— Plato

Do not expect justice where might is right.

— Plato

“He was a wise man who invented God.”

— Plato

If you are wise, all men will be your friends and kindred, for you will be useful.

— Plato

Ignorance, the root and the stem of every evil.

— Plato

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

— Plato

There are three classes of men; lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain.

— Plato

Mob rule and emasculation of the wise' and 'who will watch the guardians'?

— Plato

The wisdom of men is worth little or nothing.

— Plato

Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.

— Plato

Knowledge is the rediscovering of our own insight.

— Plato

The fear of death is indeed the pretence of wisdom, and not real wisdom, being the appearance of knowing the unknown.

— Plato

A hero is born among a hundred, a wise man is found among a thousand, but an accomplished one might not be…

— Plato

Wise men talk because they have something to say; Fools, because they have to say something

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

— Plato

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

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Nothing is more unworthy of a wise man, or ought to trouble him more, than to have allowed more time for trifling,…

— Plato

Wisdom always makes men fortunate: for by wisdom no man could ever err, and therefore he must act rightly and succeed, or…

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“Then we shan’t regard anyone as a lover of knowledge or wisdom who is fussy about what he studies…”

— Plato

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

— Plato

“thither I went, and sought to persuade every man among you that he must look to himself, and seek virtue and wisdom…

— Plato

“For the fear of death is indeed the pretence of wisdom, and not real wisdom, being a pretence of knowing the unknown;…

— Plato

Those wretches who never have experienced the sweets of wisdom and virtue, but spend all their time in revels and debauches, sink…

— Plato

“Rather I think that a man who ... is willing ... to value learning as long as he lives, not supposing that…

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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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Neither do the ignorant love wisdom or desire to become wise; for this is the grievous thing about ignorance, that those who…

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“To fear death is nothing other than to think oneself wise when one is not; for it is to think one knows…

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“If men learn this, it will implant forgetfulness in their souls; they will cease to exercise memory because they rely on that…

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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…

— Plato

Until philosophers are kings, or the kings and princes of this world have the spirit and power of philosophy, and political greatness…

— Plato

The State which we have founded must possess the four cardinal virtues of wisdom, courage, discipline and justice ... Justice is the…

— Plato

“[Dialogue between Solon and an Egyptian Priest] In the Egyptian Delta, at the head of which the river Nile divides, there is…

— Plato

Because, unlike courage and wisdom, which made our state brave and wise by being present in a particular part of it, discipline…

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“the creative soul creates not children, but conceptions of wisdom and virtue,”

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Wisdom alone is the science of other sciences.

— Plato

That man is wisest who, like Socrates, realizes that his wisdom is worthless

— Plato