Plato

“Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.”

“Thinking: the talking of the soul with itself.”

“Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.”

“Entire ignorance is not so terrible or extreme an evil, and is far from being the greatest of all too much cleverness and too much learning, accompanied with ill bringing-up, are far more fatal.”

“The learning and knowledge that we have, is, at the most, but little compared with that of which we are ignorant.”

“Knowledge without justice ought to be called cunning rather than wisdom.”

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

“Knowledge is true opinion.”

“Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.”

“We do not learn; and what we call learning is only a process of recollection.”

“I would fain grow old learning many things.”

“Life must be lived as play.”

“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.”

“It is a common saying, and in everybody's mouth, that life is but a sojourn.”

“At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.”

“To love rightly is to love what is orderly and beautiful in an educated and disciplined way.”

“A hero is born among a hundred, a wise man is found among a thousand, but an accomplished one might not be found even among a hundred thousand men.”

“There are three classes of men; lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain.”

“Nothing can be more absurd than the practice that prevails in our country of men and women not following the same pursuits with all their strengths and with one mind, for thus, the state instead of being whole is reduced to half.”

“Whatever deceives men seems to produce a magical enchantment.”

“States are as the men, they grow out of human characters.”

“Let parents bequeath to their children not riches, but the spirit of reverence.”

“One man cannot practice many arts with success.”

“Then not only an old man, but also a drunkard, becomes a second time a child.”