Aptitude Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

“You know how much I used to like Plato. Today I realize he lied. For the things of this world are not a reflection…

— Tadeusz Borowski

Plato--who may have understood better what forms the mind of man than do some of our contemporaries who want their children exposed only to…

— Bruno Bettelheim

“Reading Plato should be easy; understanding Plato can be difficult.”

— Robin Waterfield

“Plato's point is that we can never have true knowledge of anything that is in a constant state of change. We can only have…

— Jostein Gaarder

Since Plato, we have been considering the nature of knowledge, the meaning of meaning and the status of the physical world.

— Julian Baggini

“See how Plato is moved and tossed about. Every man, glorying in applying him to himself, sets him on the side he wants. They…

— Sarah Bakewell

“Plato is widely believed to have been a student of Socrates and to have been deeply influenced by his teacher's unjust death. Plato's brilliance…

— Plato

Plato's world of ideas is beautiful.

— Carl Jung

“We see only what we know.   —Goethe”

— Robert Burton M.D

“I knew that the languages which one learns there are necessary to understand the works of the ancients; and that the delicacy of fiction…

— Anonymous

“What is important is to try to develop insights and wisdom rather than mere knowledge, respect someone's character rather than his learning, and nurture…

— Inazo Nitobe

“We know so little about Socrates but somehow we still remember he existed; more amazing yet, is how the meaning of ethics has completely…

— Alejandro C. Estrada