The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life.
Quote by Plato
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The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life.
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Plato Quotes
- Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods.
- Entire ignorance is not so terrible or extreme an evil, and is far from being the greatest of all too much cleverness and too much learning, accompanied with ill bringing-up, are far more fatal.
- Entire ignorance is not so terrible or extreme an evil, and is far from being the greatest of all too much cleverness and too much learning, accompanied with ill bringing-up, are far more fatal.
- There will be no end to the troubles of states, or of humanity itself, till philosophers become kings in this world, or till those we now call kings and rulers really and truly become philosophers, and political power and philosophy thus come into the same hands.
- Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.
- Truth is the beginning of every good to the gods, and of every good to man.
- Justice in the life and conduct of the State is possible only as first it resides in the hearts and souls of the citizens.
- We ought to fly away from earth to heaven as quickly as we can and to fly away is to become like God, as far as this is possible and to become like him is to become holy, just, and wise.
- Those who intend on becoming great should love neither themselves nor their own things, but only what is just, whether it happens to be done by themselves or others.
- States are as the men, they grow out of human characters.
Best Quotes
- Live truth instead of professing it.
- We should learn to accept that change is truly the only thing that's going on always, and learn to ride with it and enjoy it.
- You know those movies where the people in the audience are screaming, 'Don't go in that door!' because you know the killer is there? Well, it is the same thing with this debt. We know how this ends.
- It is good to express a thing twice right at the outset and so to give it a right foot and also a left one. Truth can surely stand on one leg, but with two it will be able to walk and get around.
- Fighting a war on terrorism is like fighting against crime. We can never hope to eradicate crime, so we shouldn't bother fighting it.
- The consumer isn't a moron she is your wife.
- I like being able to walk into an old town and find good local food.
- And if small businesspeople say they made it on their own, all they are saying is that nobody else worked seven days a week in their place. Nobody showed up in their place to open the door at five in the morning. Nobody did their thinking, and worrying, and sweating for them.
- Crying is cleansing. There's a reason for tears, happiness or sadness.
- Success is not a good teacher, failure makes you humble.