An empty vessel makes the loudest sound, so they that have the least wit are the greatest babblers.
PLATOIgnorance, the root and stem of every evil.
More Plato Quotes
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The object of education is to teach us to love what is beautiful.
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Of all the animals, the boy is the most unmanageable.
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We are like people looking for something they have in their hands all the time; we’re looking in all directions except at the thing we want, which is probably why we haven’t found it.
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Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle.
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Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depend on simplicity.
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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.
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Excess of liberty, whether it lies in state or individuals, seems only to pass into excess of slavery.
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Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body; but knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.
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I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.
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Love is the pursuit of the whole.
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He was a wise man who invented God.
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False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.
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Love is the name for our pursuit of wholeness, for our desire to be complete.
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Have you ever sensed that our soul is immortal and never dies?
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The most effective kind of education is that a child should play amongst lovely things.
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