Quote

Those who have knowledge are more confident than those who have no knowledge, and they are more confident after they have learned than before.

Plato

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Plato
Epigrammatist
Philosopher
Poet
Ancient Athens
Platon
Aristocles
Confident
Learned
Knowledge

More quotes by Plato

Image
The most virtuous are those who content themselves with being virtuous without seeking to appear so.
Plato
Image
Consider how great is the encouragement which all the world gives to the lover neither is he supposed to be doing anything dishonourable but if he succeeds he is praised, and if he fail he is blamed.
Plato
Image
He seemeth to be most ignorant that trusteth most to his wit.
Plato
Image
No one ever dies an atheist.
Plato
Image
The only thing worse than suffering an injustice is committing an injustice.
Plato
Image
Virtue is a kind of health, beauty and good habit of the soul.
Plato
Image
Only those who do not seek power are qualified to hold it.
Plato
Image
The true runner comes to the finish and receives the prize and is crowned.
Plato
Image
Justice is nothing more than the advantage of the stronger.
Plato
Image
Man is a prisoner who has no right to open the door of his prison and run away. . . . A man should wait, and not take his own life until God summons hiom.
Plato
Image
A good education consists in knowing how to sing and dance well.
Plato
Image
Let us describe the education of our men. What then is the education to be? Perhaps we could hardly find a better than that which the experience of the past has already discovered, which consists, I believe, in gymnastic, for the body, and music for the mind.
Plato
Image
It would be better for me ... that multitudes of men should disagree with me rather than that I, being one, should be out of harmony with myself.
Plato
Image
I would fain grow old learning many things.
Plato
Image
No human thing is of serious importance.
Plato
Image
False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.
Plato
Image
Harmony sinks deep into the recesses of the soul and takes its strongest hold there, bringing grace also to the body & mind as well. Music is a moral law. It gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, a charm to sadness, and life to everything. It is the essence of order.
Plato
Image
As it is, lovers of inquiry must follow their beloved wherever it may lead.
Plato
Image
Can any man be courageous who has the fear of death in him?
Plato
Image
He who is of a calm and happy nature, will hardly feel the pressure of age
Plato