Plato Quotes About Wisdom

Quotes about: Wisdom

• Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.

  Plato

  Wise, Wisdom, Witty

• A good decision is based on knowledge, and not on numbers.

  Plato

  Wisdom, Plato, Business

  Plato (1871). “The Dialogues of Plato”, p.83

• The wise man will want to be ever with him who is better than himself.

  Plato

  Wise, Wisdom, Men

  Plato (2012). “The Trial and Death of Socrates: Four Dialogues”, p.60, Courier Corporation

• Ignorance, the root and the stem of every evil.

  Plato

  Education, Wisdom, Plato

• Nothing in the affairs of men is worthy of great anxiety.

  Plato

  Life, Death, Wisdom

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

  Plato

  Life, Wise, Wisdom

• Philosophy is the highest music.

  Plato

  Music, Wisdom, Plato

  Plato (2016). “Apology Of Socrates And Crito”, p.55, Read Books Ltd

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

  Plato

  Love, Wisdom, Plato

• Do not expect justice where might is right.

  Plato

  Wisdom, Justice, Might

• The cure of many diseases is unknown to physicians because they are ignorant of the whole... For the part can never be well unless the whole is well.

  Plato

  Wise, Wisdom, Clever

• Thinking is the soul talking to itself.

  Plato

  Wisdom, Thinking, Talking

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

  Plato

  Wisdom, Philosophical, Mimicking

• Wisdom always makes men fortunate: for by wisdom no man could ever err, and therefore he must act rightly and succeed, or his wisdom would be wisdom no longer.

  Plato

  Wisdom, Men, Would Be

  Plato (2010). “The Works of Plato: Charmides, Lysis, Other Dialogues and the Laws”, p.233, Cosimo, Inc.

• Was not this ... what we spoke of as the great advantage of wisdom -- to know what is known and what is unknown to us?

  Plato

  Wisdom, Advantage, Spokes

  Plato (2016). “The Complete Works of Plato (Unabridged): From the greatest Greek philosopher, known for The Republic, Symposium, Apology, Phaedrus, Laws, Crito, Phaedo, Timaeus, Meno, Euthyphro, Gorgias, Parmenides, Protagoras, Statesman and Critias”, p.103, e-artnow (Open Publishing)

• They (the poets) are to us in a manner the fathers and authors of the wisdom.

  Plato

  Wisdom, Father, Poetry

• The god, O men, seems to me to be really wise; and by his oracle to mean this, that the wisdom of this world is foolishness and of none effect.

  Plato

  Wise, Wisdom, Mean

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

  Plato

  Wise, Wisdom, Men

  Catholic Way Publishing, Aristotle, Plato (2015). “The Philosophy Collection [97 Books]”, p.6020, Catholic Way Publishing

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