Plato Quotes About Belief

Quotes about: Belief

• When the mind's eye rests on objects illuminated by truth and reality, it understands and comprehends them, and functions intelligently; but when it turns to the twilight world of change and decay, it can only form opinions, its vision is confused and its beliefs shifting, and it seems to lack intelligence.

  Plato

  Confused, Twilight, Eye

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

  Plato

  Wisdom, Plato, Educational

  Plato (1977). “The Portable Plato”, p.349, Penguin

• There are some whom the applause of the multitude has deluded into the belief that they are really statesmen.

  Plato

  Belief, Applause, Multitudes

  Plato (1977). “The Portable Plato”, p.256, Penguin

• Thinking is the soul talking to itself.

  Plato

  Wisdom, Thinking, Talking

• Thus rhetoric, it seems, is a producer of persuasion for belief, not for instruction in the matter of right and wrong ... And so the rhetorician's business is not to instruct a law court or a public meeting in matters of right and wrong, but only to make them believe.

  Plato

  Plato, Believe, Law

  Plato, Harold North Fowler, Walter Rangeley Maitland Lamb, Robert Gregg Bury (1953). “Plato”

• . . . Then anyone who leaves behind him a written manual, and likewise anyone who receives it, in the belief that such writing will be clear and certain, must be exceedingly simple-minded. . . .

  Plato

  Writing, Simple, Libertarian

• What essence is to generation, that truth is to belief.

  Plato

  Truth, Essence, Generations

• Maximize the power of the beliefs that strengthen you and neutralize those that weaken you.

  Plato

  Belief

• facebook
• twitter
• googleplus
• email
• linkedin

• facebook
• twitter
• googleplus
• email
• linkedin