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Plato Quotes

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A good decision is based on knowledge and not on numbers.

A hero is born among a hundred, a wise man is found among a thousand, but an accomplished one might not be found even among a hundred thousand men.

A state arises, as I conceive, out of the needs of mankind; no one is self-sufficing, but all of us have many wants.

All men are by nature equal, made all of the same earth by one Workman; and however we deceive ourselves, as dear unto God is the poor peasant as the mighty prince.

All the gold which is under or upon the earth is not enough to give in exchange for virtue.

All things will be produced in superior quantity and quality, and with greater ease, when each man works at a single occupation, in accordance with his natural gifts, and at the right moment, without meddling with anything else.

And what, Socrates, is the food of the soul? Surely, I said, knowledge is the food of the soul.

Any man may easily do harm, but not every man can do good to another.

Apply yourself both now and in the next life. Without effort, you cannot be prosperous. Though the land be good, You cannot have an abundant crop without cultivation.

As the builders say, the larger stones do not lie well without the lesser.

Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another.

At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.

Attention to health is life greatest hindrance.

Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.

Better a little which is well done, than a great deal imperfectly.

Courage is a kind of salvation.

Courage is knowing what not to fear.

Cunning… is but the low mimic of wisdom.

Death is not the worst that can happen to men.

Democracy passes into despotism.

Wisdom Quotes by Philosophers

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“When virtue is lost, benevolence appears; when benevolence is lost, right conduct appears; when right conduct is lost, expedience appears. Expediency is the mere shadow of right and truth; it is the beginning of disorder.” – Lao Tzu (Taoism)

“All our knowledge begins with the senses, then proceeds to knowledge, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.” – Immanuel Kant (Reason)

“A tree is identified by its fruit. Make a tree good, and its fruit will be good. Make a tree bad, and its fruit will be bad.” – Jesus Christ (Christianity)

“When we see persons of worth, we should think of equaling them; when we see persons of a contrary character, we should turn inwards and examine ourselves.” – Confucius (Confucianism)

“Ignorance of all things is an evil neither terrible nor excessive, nor yet the greatest of all; but great cleverness and much learning, if they be accompanied by a bad training, are a much greater misfortune.” – Plato (Greek philosophy)

“All that we are is the result of our thought. If a man speaks or acts with an evil thought, pain follows him. If a man speaks or acts with a pure thought, happiness follows him.” – Gautama Buddha (Buddhism)

“Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become honest by doing honest acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts.” – Aristotle (Metaphysics)

Lies Quotes

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Liars when they speak the truth are not believed. – Aristotle

Gradually I came to realize that people will more readily swallow lies than truth, as if the taste of lies was homey, appetizing: a habit. – Martha Gellhorn

Lying is like alcoholism. You are always recovering. – Steven Soderbergh

If you do not wish to be lied to, do not ask questions. If there were no questions, there would be no lies. – B. Traven

Never forget that a half truth is a whole lie. – Author Unknown

A lie can run around the world before the truth can get it’s boots on. – James Watt

If you wish to strengthen a lie, mix a little truth in with it. – Zohar

Lying increases the creative faculties, expands the ego, and lessens the frictions of social contacts. – Clare Booth Luce

Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth. – Franklin D. Roosevelt

Ambition drove many men to become false; to have one thought locked in the breast, another ready on the tongue. – Sallust

Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well. – Samuel Butler

Please don’t lie to me, unless you’re absolutely sure I’ll never find out the truth. – Ashleigh Brilliant

He who foretells the future lies, even if he tells the truth. – Arabian Proverb

Lies that build are better than truths that destroy. – Senegalese Proverb

Falsehood is invariably the child of fear in one form or another. – Aleister Crowley

The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way. – Samuel Butler

The visionary lies to himself, the liar only to others. – Friedrich Nietzsche

All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it. – H. L. Mencken

It is always the best policy to speak the truth–unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar. – Jerome K. Jerome

A lie told often enough becomes the truth. – Lenin

A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes. – Mark Twain

Every violation of truth is not only a sort of suicide in the liar, but is a stab at the health of human society. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

If a lie is repeated often enough all the dumb jackasses in the world not only get to believe it, they even swear by it. – Billy Boy Franklin

The history of our race, and each individual’s experience, are sown thick with evidence that a truth is not hard to kill and that a lie told well is immortal. – Mark Twain

Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

A little inaccuracy sometimes saves tons of explanation. – Saki

Oh what a tangled web we weave,
When first we practise to deceive! – Sir Walter Scott

Truly, to tell lies is not honorable;
but when the truth entails tremendous ruin,
To speak dishonorably is pardonable. – Sophocles

A mind conscious of innocence laughs at the lies of rumor. – Latin Proverb

That’s not a lie, it’s a terminological inexactitude. Also, a tactical misrepresentation. – Alexander Haig

False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil. – Plato

A liar should have a good memory. – Quintilian

Liars need to have good memories. – Algernon Sidney

Being Afraid Quotes

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I’m not afraid of storms for I’m learning how to sail my ship. – Louisa May Alcott

Courage is doing what you’re afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you’re scared. – Eddie Rickenbacker

You must do the things you think you cannot do. – Eleanor Roosevelt

The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek. – Joseph Campbell

The best way to gain self-confidence is to do what you are afraid to do. – Anonymous

With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts. – Eleanor Roosevelt

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear. – Mark Twain

Do the thing you fear most and the death of fear is certain. – Mark Twain

The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be. – Anne Frank

If you realize that all things change, there is nothing you will try to hold on to. If you are not afraid of dying, there is nothing you cannot achieve. – Lao Tzu

Always do what you are afraid to do. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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. – Plato

We have to start teaching ourselves not to be afraid. – William Faulkner

The first step to believing something is true is wanting to believe it is true… or being afraid it is. – Terry Goodkind

Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great. – John D. Rockefeller

Cute Love Quotes #4

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If I had a flower for every time I thought of you, I could walk in my garden forever. – Alfred Lord Tennyson

You know you’re in love when you can’t fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams. – Dr. Seuss

Love is not something you feel. It’s something you do. – David Wilkerson

Love is loving what your lover loves. – Anonymous

Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love. – Charlie Brown in Charles Schulz’ Peanuts comic

Love conquers all things except poverty and a toothache. – Mae West

If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question. – Lily Tomlin

True love comes quietly, without banners or flashing lights. If you hear bells, get your ears checked. – Erich Segal

Love is a grave mental disease. – Plato

Love is what makes two people sit in the middle of a bench when there is plenty of room at both ends. – Anonymous

Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour and it seems like a minute. That’s relativity. – Albert Einstein

Do you love me because I am beautiful, or am I beautiful because you love me? – Oscar Hammerstein II (Cinderella)

Music Quotes

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“Opera is when a guy gets stabbed in the back and, instead of bleeding, he sings.” – Ed Gardner

“Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence.” – Robert Fripp

“Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything.” – Plato

“Life is one grand, sweet song so start the music.” – Ronald Reagan

“Nothing separates the generations more than music. By the time a child is eight or nine, he has developed a passion for his own music that is even stronger than his passions for procrastination and weird clothes.” – Bill Cosby

“Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable.” – Samuel Johnson

“Music in the soul can be heard by the universe.” – Lao Tzu

“I don’t know anything about music. In my line you don’t have to.” – Elvis Presley

“Music is a safe kind of high.” – Jimi Hendrix

“Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.” – Victor Hugo

Politics Quotes

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“One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.” – Plato

“Politics is such a torment that I advise everyone I love not to mix with it.” – Thomas Jefferson

“I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.” – Charles De Gaulle

“Being in politics is like being a football coach. You have to be smart enough to understand the game, and dumb enough to think it’s important.” – Eugene McCarthy

“Politics is the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month and next year and to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn’t happen.” – Winston Churchill

“The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.” – H.L. Mencken

“I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. My sons ought to study mathematics and philosophy, geography, natural history, naval architecture, navigation, commerce and agriculture in order to give their children a right to study painting, poetry, music, architecture, statuary, tapestry, and porcelain.” – John Adams

“Politics have no relation to morals.” – Niccolo Machiavelli

“Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.” – John Kenneth Galbraith

“It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first.” – Ronald Reagan

Famous Education & Wisdom Quotes

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“It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.” – Aristotle

“Education is when you read the fine print. Experience is what you get if you don’t.” – Pete Seeger

“The only true wisdom is knowing that you know nothing.” – Socrates

“To repeat what others have said requires education. To challenge it requires brains.” – Marry Pettibone Poole

“It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.” – Alec Bourne

“Life is not divided into semesters. You don’t get summers off and very few employers are interested in helping you find yourself.” – Bill Gates

“Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.” – Albert Einstein

“Education is like a double-edged sword. It may be turned to dangerous uses if it is not properly handled.” – Wu Ting-Fang

“Ignorance, the root and the stem of every evil.” ­- Plato

“Education’s purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.” – Malcolm Forbes

Famous Death Quotes

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“In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.” – Benjamin Franklin

“Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.” – Buddha

“Our death is not an end if we can live on in our children and the younger generation. For they are us, our bodies are only wilted leaves on the tree of life.” – Albert Einstein

“The reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated.” – Mark Twain

“The only difference between death and taxes is that death doesn’t get worse every time Congress meets.” – Will Rogers

“As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.” – Leonardo da Vinci

“The boundaries which divide life from death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?” – Edgar Allan Poe

“Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily.” – Napoleon Bonaparte

“The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.” – Mark Twain

“No one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.” – Plato

Sweet Quotes About Love

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– “Love is the irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.” – Robert Frost

– “The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved.” – Victor Hugo

– “To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.” – Lao Tzu

– “Who, being loved, is poor?” – Oscar Wilde

– “There are a million things in the world I want, but all I need is you.” – Anonymous

– “If I know what love is, it is because of you.” – Herman Hesse

– “The course of true love never did run smooth.” – Shakespeare

– “Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.” – Albert Einstein

– “We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.” – Sam Keen

– “At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.” – Plato