Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
A man's duty is to find out where the truth is, or if he cannot, at least to take the best possible human doctrine and the hardest to disprove, and to ride on this like a raft over the waters of life.
Plato
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Plato
Epigrammatist
Philosopher
Poet
Ancient Athens
Platon
Aristocles
Water
Raft
Men
Cannot
Waters
Life
Truth
Ride
Like
Best
Doctrine
Find
Hardest
Human
Duty
Humans
Least
Possible
Disprove
Take
More quotes by Plato
There are three classes of men lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain.
Plato
Not one of them who took up in his youth with this opinion that there are no gods ever continued until old age faithful to his conviction.
Plato
Those who practice philosophy in the right way are in training for dying and they fear death least of all men.
Plato
There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good.
Plato
To think truly is noble and to be deceived is base.
Plato
Be kind, for everyone is having a hard battle.
Plato
Everything that deceives may be said to enchant.
Plato
The good is the beautiful.
Plato
I will prove by my life that my critics are liars.
Plato
Rhythm and melody enter into the soul of the well-instructed youth and produce there a certain mental harmony hardly obtainable in any other way. . . . thus music, too, is concerned with the principles of love in their application to harmony and rhythm.
Plato
The deity on purpose [sings] the liveliest of all lyrics through the most miserable poet.
Plato
Until philosophers hold power, neither states nor individuals will have rest from trouble.
Plato
[M]ere knowledge of the truth will not give you the art of persuasion.
Plato
Kindness which is bestowed on the good is never lost.
Plato
Arrogance is ever accompanied by folly.
Plato
For a man to conquer himself is the first and noblest of all victories.
Plato
The mortal nature is seeking as far as is possible to be everlasting and immortal: and this is only to be attained by generation, because the new is always left in the place of the old.
Plato
Not by force shall the children learn, but through play
Plato
Let praise be given equally to women as well as men who have been distinguished in virtue.
Plato
When men speak ill of thee, live so that nobody will believe them.
Plato