"The philosopher is in love with truth, that is, not with the changing world of sensation, which is the object of opinion, but with the unchanging reality which is the object of knowledge."
Plato Quotes
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Two quotes a day keep the lack of wisdom at bay.
"All enquiry and all learning is but recollection."
"Excellence of understanding comes from something divine, whereas the other excellences are probably close to the body."
"I don't think we shall quarrel about a word the subject of our inquiry is too important for that."
"The truth is, O men of Athens, that God only is wise; and by his answer he intends to show that the wisdom of men is worth little or nothing."
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"I would teach children music, physics, and philosophy; but most importantly music, for the patterns in music and all the arts are the keys to learning."
"Excess generally causes reaction, and produces a change in the opposite direction, whether it be in the seasons, or in individuals, or in governments."
"He who wishes to serve his country must have not only the power to think, but the will to act."
"Laws are partly formed for the sake of good men, in order to instruct them how they may live on friendly terms with one another, and partly for the sake of those who refuse to be instructed, whose spirit cannot be subdued, or softened, or hindered from plunging into evil."
"You should not honor men more than truth."
"I have a theory that you can make any sentence seem profound by writing the name of a dead philosopher at the end of it."
"We are twice armed if we fight with faith."
"But of the heaven which is above the heavens, what earthly poet ever did or ever will sing worthily?"
"The soul of him who has education is whole and perfect and escapes the worst disease, but, if a man's education be neglected, he walks lamely through life and returns good for nothing to the world below."
"Mankind will never see an end of trouble until lovers of wisdom come to hold political power, or the holders of power become lovers of wisdom."
"Better a little which is well done, than a great deal imperfectly."
"States are as the men, they grow out of human characters."
"Music and rhythm find their way into the secret places of the soul."
"What shall we say about those spectators, then, who can see a plurality of beautiful things, but not beauty itself, and who are incapable of following if someone else tries to lead them to it, and who can see many moral actions, but not morality itself, and so on? That they only ever entertain beliefs, and do not know any of the things they believe?"