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Thinking Quotes by Plato
- Thinking: the talking of the soul with itself.
- When the mind is thinking it is talking to itself.
- That makes me think, my friend, as I have often done before, how natural it is that those who have spent a long time in…
- The orators and the despots have the least power in their cities ... since they do nothing that they wish to do, practically speaking, though…
- For it is obvious to everybody, I think, that this study [of astronomy] compels the soul to look upward and leads it away from things…
- My good friend, you are a citizen of Athens, a city which is very great and very famous for its wisdom and power - are…
- I'm trying to think, don't confuse me with facts.
- Until philosophers rule as kings or those who are now called kings and leading men genuinely and adequately philosophise, that is, until political power and…
- ... our purpose in founding our state was not to promote the happiness of a single class, but, so far as possible, of the whole…
- What the expression is intended to mean, I think, is that there is a better and a worse element in the character of each individual,…
- The highest form of pure thought is in mathematics.
- The true lover of learning then must his earliest youth, as far as in him lies, desire all truth.... He whose desires are drawn toward…
- Thinking is the soul talking to itself.
- Thinking and spoken discourse are the same thing, except that what we call thinking is, precisely, the inward dialogue carried on by the mind with…
- I don't know anything that gives me greater pleasure, or profit either, than talking or listening to philosophy. But when it comes to ordinary conversation,…
- He who wishes to serve his country must have not only the power to think, but the will to act
- But this is not difficult, O Athenians! to escape death; but it is much more difficult to avoid depravity, for it runs swifter than death.…
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- We tend to become what the most important person in our life thinks we will become. Think the best, believe the best,… — John C. Maxwell