TOP 70+ Plato Quotes part 4 of 6 | Education and Knowledge | Ancient Greek Philosopher

Plato (/ˈpleɪtoʊ/ PLAY-toe;Greek: Πλάτων Plátōn, pronounced [plá.tɔːn] in Classical Attic; 428/427 or 424/423 – 348/347 BC) was a Greek philosopher, writer, teacher, public speaker, and Socrates's most brilliant student. 

He was an Athenian philosopher during the Classical period in Ancient Greece, founder of the Platonist school of thought, and the Academy, the first institution of higher learning in the Western world.

He is widely considered the pivotal figure in the history of Ancient Greek and Western philosophy, along with his teacher, Socrates, and his most famous student, Aristotle.

Plato's Quotes:

1. "The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life."


2. "If a man neglects education, he walks lame to the end of his life."


3. "No man should bring children into the world who is unwilling to persevere to the end in their nature and education."


4. "Do not train a child to learn by force or harshness; but direct them to it by what amuses their minds, so that you may be better able to discover with accuracy the peculiar bent of the genius of each."


5. "If women are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach them the same things."


6. "Books give a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and life to everything."


7. "No one ever teaches well who wants to teach, or governs well who wants to govern."


8. "Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body; but knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind."


9. "knowledge is the food of the soul."


10. "Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous."


11. "Knowledge without justice ought to be called cunning rather than wisdom."


12. "The learning and knowledge that we have, is, at the most, but little compared with that of which we are ignorant."


13. "We do not learn, and what we call learning is only a process of recollection."

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TOP 70+ Plato Quotes:

part 1: Love Quotes

part 2: Life and Humanity

part 3: Quotes on Wisdom

part 4: Education and Knowledge

part 5: Thinking and Act Courageously

part 6: Truth and Reality