Quote

People too smart to get involved in politics are doomed to live in societies run by people who aren't.

Plato

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Plato
Epigrammatist
Philosopher
Poet
Ancient Athens
Platon
Aristocles
Live
People
Societies
Doomed
Smart
Aren
Involved
Politics
Running

More quotes by Plato

Image
Better to complete a small task well, than to do much imperfectly.
Plato
Image
Hardly any human being is capable of pursuing two professions or two arts rightly.
Plato
Image
Nothing in human affairs is worth any great anxiety.
Plato
Image
Wisdom alone is the science of others sciences.
Plato
Image
Don't force your children into your ways, for they were created for a time different from your own.
Plato
Image
An hour of play is worth a lifetime of conversation.
Plato
Image
And if we are good, we are beneficent: for all good things are beneficial. Are they not?
Plato
Image
All the gold upon the earth and all the gold beneath it, does not compensate for lack of virtue.
Plato
Image
Wisdom is a blaze, kindled by a leaping spark.
Plato
Image
A man is not learned until he can read, write and swim.
Plato
Image
Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depend on Simplicity.
Plato
Image
And tell him it's quite true that the best of the philosophers are of no use to their fellows but that he should blame, not the philosophers, but those who fail to make use of them.
Plato
Image
There's a victory and defeat-the first and best of victories, the lowest and worst of defeats-which each man gains or sustains at the hands not of another, but of himself.
Plato
Image
Let no one destitute of geometry enter my doors.
Plato
Image
In one sense it is evident that the art of kingship does include the art of lawmaking. But the political ideal is not full authority for laws but rather full authority for a man who understands the art of kingship and has kingly ability.
Plato
Image
Apply yourself both now and in the next life. Without effort, you cannot be prosperous. Though the land be good, you cannot have an abundant crop without cultivation.
Plato
Image
He who advises a sick man, whose manner of life is prejudicial to health, is clearly bound first of all to change his patient's manner of life.
Plato
Image
Anything worth knowing is already known and must be remembered and reclaimed by the soul.
Plato
Image
Who are the true philosophers? Those whose passion is to love the truth.
Plato
Image
No law or ordinance is mightier than understanding.
Plato