Thinker · 9 quotes
9 sourced quotes by Plato on truth & wisdom, integrity & honesty, civil services & public service, education & knowledge, media, speech & public opinion, with a use case for each in GS4, Essay and interviews.
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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.
to seek office oneself and not await compulsion is thought disgraceful. But the chief penalty is to be governed by someone worse if a man will not himself hold office and rule.
Wonder is the feeling of a philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.
No man of sense can put himself and his soul under the control of names... You must consider courageously and thoroughly and not accept anything carelessly.
I do see one large and grievous kind of ignorance, separate from the rest, and as weighty as all the other parts put together. Thinking that one knows a thing when one does not know it. Through this, I believe, all the mistakes of the mind are caused in all of us.
Rhetoric, it seems, is a producer of persuasion for belief, not for instruction in the matter of right and wrong … And so the rhetorician's business is not to instruct a law court or a public meeting in matters of right and wrong, but only to make them believe.
The beginning in every task is the chief thing.
No one should be discouraged, Theaetetus, who can make constant progress, even though it be slow.
Moreover, there is a victory and defeat—the first and best of victories, the lowest and worst of defeats—which each man gains or sustains at the hands, not of another, but of himself; this shows that there is a war against ourselves going on within every one of us.