Plato Quotes to Freshen Up your Philosophy on Life

A good decision is based on knowledge and not on numbers.

Knowledge is true opinion.

Science is nothing but perception.

He who is of calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age, but to him who is of an opposite disposition youth and age are equally a burden.

Wisdom alone is the science of other sciences.

People are like dirt. They can either nourish you and help you grow as a person or they can stunt your growth and make you wilt and die.

The measure of a man is what he does with power.

The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life.

No law or ordinance is mightier than understanding.

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

Tyranny naturally arises out of democracy.

Justice means minding one's own business and not meddling with other men's concerns.

Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.

The blame is his who chooses: God is blameless.

All men are by nature equal, made all of the same earth by one Workman; and however we deceive ourselves, as dear unto God is the poor peasant as the mighty prince.

Good actions give strength to ourselves and inspire good actions in others.

Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

The wisest have the most authority.

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

Our object in the construction of the state is the greatest happiness of the whole, and not that of any one class.