Famous Quotes & Sayings

Plato

My good friend, you are a citizen of Athens, a city which is very great and very famous for its wisdom and power - are you not ashamed of caring so much for the making of money and for fame and prestige, when you neither think nor care about wisdom and truth and the improvement of your soul?

Plato

Twice and thrice over, as they say, good is it to repeat and review what is good.

Plato

Until philosophers hold power, neither states nor individuals will have rest from trouble.

Plato

What is at issue is the conversion of the mind from the twilight of error to the truth, that climb up into the real world which we shall call true philosophy.

Plato

There is a ... matter - much more valuable and divine than natural philosophy . ... On this matter I must speak to you in enigmas.

Plato

The unexamined life is not worth living for a human being.

Plato

Entire ignorance is not so terrible or extreme an evil, and is far from being the greatest of all.

Plato

No law or ordinance is mightier than understanding.

Plato

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

Plato

Tyranny naturally arises out of democracy.

Plato

Man never legislates,but destinies and accidents,happening in all sorts of ways,legislate in all sorts of ways.

Plato

There is no harm in repeating a good thing.

Plato

Any man may easily do harm, but not every man can do good to another.

Plato

He who steals a little steals with the same wish as he who steals much, but with less power.

Plato

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

Plato

Man is a wingless animal with two feet and flat nails.

Plato

The gods created certain kinds of beings to replenish our bodies... they are the trees and the plants and the seeds.

Plato

Geometry will draw the soul toward truth and create the spirit of philosophy.

Plato

Virtue is relative to the actions and ages of each of us in all that we do.

Plato

States will never be happy until rulers become philosophers or philosophers become rulers.

Plato

To be conquered by yourself is of all things most shameful and vile.

Plato

All the gold which is under or upon the earth is not enough to give in exchange for virtue.

Plato

...there are some who are naturally fitted for philosophy and political leadership, while the rest should follow their lead and let philosophy alone.

Plato

Philosophy begins in wonder.

Plato

If particulars are to have meaning, there must be universals.

Plato

The eyes of the soul of the multitudes are unable to endure the vision of the divine.

Phil Keoghan

There was some expiration point to my life, and it became very important to maximize the time that I did have on Earth. That's what led me to my personal philosophy: "No Opportunity Wasted" - NOW for short, which is about living life to the fullest.

Lee Atwater

Perception is reality.

Philip Roth

Nothing lasts and yet nothing passes either, and nothing passes just because nothing lasts.

Peter Diamandis

I have the general philosophy of creating the future you want to see.

Marlon Brando

Hey, you wanna hear my philosophy of life? Do it to him before he does it to you.

Marisha Pessl

May you walk a lighted path. May you fight for truth - your truth, not someone else's - and may you understand, above all things, that you are the most important concept, theory, and philosophy I have ever known.

Maria Sharapova

When I come into a tournament, I'm expecting to win. That's my philosophy. I can't go to a tournament thinking, 'I'm going to get my ass kicked today, so I might as well leave.'