Quotes from Plato

Wisdom alone is the science of others sciences.

The cure of many diseases is unknown to physicians because they are ignorant of the whole... For the part can never be well unless the whole is well.

One trait in the philosopher's character we can assume is his love of the knowledge that reveals eternal reality, the realm unaffected by change and decay.

The wisest of you men is he who has realized, like Socrates, that in respect of wisdom he is really worthless.

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.

Was not this ... what we spoke of as the great advantage of wisdom -- to know what is known and what is unknown to us?

The wisdom of men is worth little or nothing.

He, O men, is the wisest, who, like Socrates, knows that his wisdom is in truth worth nothing.

A wise man speaks because he has something to say; a fool because he has to say something.

When man is not properly trained, he is the most savage animal on the face of the globe.

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

The three wishes of every man: to be healthy, to be rich by honest means, and to be beautiful.

He is unworthy of the name of man who is ignorant of the fact that the diagonal of a square is incommensurable with its side.

Man is a being in search of meaning.

No man should be angry with what is true.

Watch a man at play for an hour and you can learn more about him than in talking to him for a year.

The noblest of all studies is the study of what man is and of what life he should live.

It is better to be wise, and not to seem so, than to seem wise, and not be so; yet men, for the most part, desire the contrary.

The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is to live under the government of worse men.

More will be accomplished, and better, and with more ease, if every man does what he is best fitted to do, and nothing else.

I know nothing more worthy of a man's ambition than that his son be the best of men.

No evil can happen to a good man either in life or after death.

The soul of man is immortal and imperishable.

A man is not learned until he can read, write and swim.