More from Plato
No one is more hated than he who speaks the truth.
PlatoPlato Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
PlatoPlato There is truth in wine and children.
PlatoPlato We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.
PlatoPlato Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.
PlatoPlato The heaviest penalty for declining to rule is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself.
PlatoPlato There is in every one of us, even those who seem to be most moderate, a type of desire that is terrible, wild, and lawless.
PlatoPlato I would teach children music, physics, and philosophy; but most importantly music, for the patterns in music and all the arts are the keys to learning.
PlatoPlato The philosopher whose dealings are with divine order himself acquires the characteristics of order and divinity.
PlatoPlato Lack of activity destroys the good condition of every human being.
PlatoPlato 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 him.
PlatoPlato Philosophy is the highest music.
PlatoPlato Time is the moving image of reality.
PlatoPlato The measure of a man is what he does with power.
PlatoPlato Love is born into every human being; it calls back the halves of our original nature together; it tries to make one out of two and heal the wound of human nature.
PlatoPlato Death is not the worst that can happen to men.
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Juana GarciaJuana Garcia I would rather shoot my arrows than keep them in my bow, I would rather risk it all than risk nothing at all.
ShamaShama I wish I knew then all of the things I know now that I am enough.
TMCTMC I feel like I’m on fire, fighting for a moment on respite – I’m not placing bets.
M.K. StandbyM.K. Standby I found him in all the chaos, and that was when my world started making sense again.
MoomerMoomer The judgement that people cast on you for how you do or do not appear is nothing more than just a projection of their own wounds.
Taj AroraTaj Arora Be grateful for what you have now, even if it’s not everything you wanted.
Sonia SabnisSonia Sabnis It seems strange how we look in the same mirror, yet what stares back, is so painfully different.
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More on truth
This whole religion revolves around knowing the truth and acting by it, and action must be accompanied by patience.
Ibn TaymiyyahIbn Taymiyyah The wine-cup is the little silver well, Where truth, if truth there be, doth dwell.
Omar KhayyamOmar Khayyam I tell you the truth, it is hard for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven. Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven.
Jesus ChristJesus Christ I suspect the truth is that we are waiting, all of us, against insurmountable odds, for something extraordinary to happen to us.
Khaled HosseiniKhaled Hosseini I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life. No one comes to the Father except through me.
Jesus ChristJesus Christ Truth is often eclipsed but never extinguished.
LivyLivy I am chaos I am war. I am an ocean an island. I am pain I am truth. I am still human.
Helena DegnHelena Degn The truth is that: We are unhappy married and unmarried we’re unhappy. In marriage you must first endure, pity and then embrace.
Mwanandeke KindemboMwanandeke Kindembo