
- Mini Bio
- Name: Plato
- Born: 428 BC, Athens, Greece
- Died: 347 BC, Athens, Greece
- Era: Ancient philosophy
- School: Platonism
- Occupation: Philosopher
- Famous for: In 387 BC he founded the Academy in Athens which was an al fresco philosophical school
- Influences: Diotima, Heraclitus, Parmenides, Pythagoras and Socrates
- Inspired: Aristotle, Dante, Ellen Francis Mason, Francesco Petrarca, Harold F. Cherniss, Henry More, Lord Byron, Percy Shelly, Raphael, William Shakespeare and William Wordsworth
- Trivia: Legend has it that there was a sign at the entrance to the Academy with the following Plato quote: "Let none who has not learned Geometry enter here". Even though it is unsubstantiated it still adds to the mystique of this great Greek philosopher
- Quotes about Plato: The mathematician and philosopher Alfred North Whitehead said of him: "The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato"
- The English philosopher George Henry Lewes said about him: "Plato was the most artistic of philosophers... among men of great eminence"
"Wise men speak because they have something to say; fools because they have to say something"
Plato"Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle"
Plato"The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men"
Plato"The heaviest penalty for declining to rule is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself"
Plato"Never discourage anyone... who continually makes progress, no matter how slow"
Plato"I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing"
Plato"Access to power must be confined to those who are not in love with it"
Plato"Reality is created by the mind, we can change our reality by changing our mind"
Plato"No one is more hated than he who speaks the truth"
Plato"The right question is usually more important than the right answer"
Plato"Wonder is the feeling of the philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder"
Plato"Ignorance, the root and the stem of every evil"
Plato"The measure of a man is what he does with power"
Plato"The first and the best victory is to conquer self"
Plato"Only the dead have seen the end of war"
Plato"I'm trying to think, don't confuse me with facts"
Plato"There is truth in wine and children"
Plato"The body is the tomb of the soul"
Plato"Time is the moving image of reality"
Plato"Courage is knowing what not to fear"
PlatoGreat quotes are not where you find great wisdom. It's where you share this knowledge that counts
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