Here we have put together a list of the 25 best quotes by Plato.
Top 25 Plato Quotes and Sayings
Education is teaching our children to desire the right things.
The madness of love is the greatest of heaven's blessings.
Courage is knowing what not to fear.
I'm trying to think, don't confuse me with facts.
There is truth in wine and children.
If women are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach them the same things.
Those who tell the stories rule society.
Ignorance, the root and stem of every evil.
One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.
The measure of a man is what he does with power.
Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.
Love is a serious mental disease.
The beginning is the most important part of the work.
Never discourage anyone... who continually makes progress, no matter how slow.
Democracy... is a charming form of government, full of variety and disorder; and dispensing a sort of equality to equals and unequals alike.
I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.
The first and greatest victory is to conquer yourself; to be conquered by yourself is of all things most shameful and vile.
Do not train a child to learn by force or harshness; but direct them to it by what amuses their minds, so that you may be better able to discover with accuracy the peculiar bent of the genius of each.
Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything.
Only the dead have seen the end of war.
Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.
The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.
Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.
We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.
Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.