Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
We are like people looking for something they have in their hands all the time we're looking in all directions except at the thing we want, which is probably why we haven't found it.
Plato
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Plato
Epigrammatist
Philosopher
Poet
Ancient Athens
Platon
Aristocles
Hands
Thing
Directions
Something
Havens
Time
Haven
Like
Except
People
Probably
Looking
Found
More quotes by Plato
Harmony is a symphony, and symphony is an agreement but an agreement of disagreements while they disagree there cannot be you cannot harmonize that which disagrees.
Plato
The good is the beautiful.
Plato
Great is the issue at stake, greater than appears, whether a man is to be good or bad. And what will any one be profited if, under the influence of money or power, he neglect justice and virtue?
Plato
Haughtiness lives under the same roof with solitude.
Plato
The natural function of the wing is to soar upwards and carry that which is heavy up to the place where dwells the race of gods. More than any other thing that pertains to the body it partakes of the nature of the divine.
Plato
We will be better and braver if we engage and inquire than if we indulge in the idle fancy that we already know -- or that it is of no use seeking to know what we do not know.
Plato
Excellence is not a gift, but a skill that takes practice. We do not act rightly because we are excellent, in fact we achieve excellence by acting rightly.
Plato
All things will be produced in superior quantity and quality, and with greater ease, when each man works at a single occupation, in accordance with his natural gifts, and at the right moment, without meddling with anything else.
Plato
Let nobody speak mischief of anybody.
Plato
Perhaps there is a pattern set up in the heavens for one who desires to see it, and having seen it, to find one in himself.
Plato
The greatest penalty of evil-doing is to grow into the likeness of a bad man.
Plato
Perfect wisdom has four parts: Wisdom, the principle of doing things aright. Justice, the principle of doing things equally in public and private. Fortitude, the principle of not fleeing danger, but meeting it. Temperance, the principle of subduing desires and living moderately.
Plato
The contemplation of beauty causes the soul to grow wings.
Plato
There is in every one of us, even those who seem to be most moderate, a type of desire that is terrible, wild, and lawless.
Plato
To do wrong is the greatest of evils.
Plato
And a democracy, I suppose, comes into being when the poor, winning the victory, put to death some of the other party, drive out others, and grant the rest of the citizens an equal share in both citizenship and offices.
Plato
For just as poets love their own works, and fathers their own children, in the same way those who have created a fortune value their money, not merely for its uses, like other persons, but because it is their own production. This makes them moreover disagreeable companions, because they will praise nothing but riches.
Plato
The like is not the friend of the like in as far as he is like still the good may be the friend of the good in as far as he is good.
Plato
Just as it would be madness to settle on medical treatment for the body of a person by taking an opinion poll of the neighbors, so it is irrational to prescribe for the body politic by polling the opinions of the people at large.
Plato
Self conquest is the greatest of victories.
Plato
