Plato Quotes

An age is called Dark not because the light fails to shine, but because people refuse to see it.

Knowledge is love and light and vision.

Plato described ordinary life as unthinking, lived in a dim cave of shadowy reflections, but said that it is possible to leave the cave and see things in sunlit clarity as they actually are.

It is high time that we realized that it is pointless to praise the light and preach it if nobody can see it. It is much more needful to preach the art of seeing.

Knowledge is grateful to the understanding, as light to the eyes.

Light is not so much something that reveals, as it is itself the revelation.

Let the ugly light of the world in, we are no longer blind.

I think the purpose of the writer is to help us see. The writer is someone who can perhaps have the joy of helping others see.

To see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion all in one.

Education, n.: That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.

In a dark time, the eye begins to see.

To love beauty is to see light.

There is no such thing as darkness; only a failure to see.

Man can no more think without words than see without light.

Facts do not convey truth. That's a mistake. Facts create norms, but truth creates illumination.

Imagination comes from yourself and can deceive you, but vision is a gift from outside yourself - like light striking on your closed eyelids and lifting them to see what's really there.

Information is light. Information in itself, about anything, is light.

Awareness is like the sun. When it shines on things, they are transformed.

The eyes of my eyes are opened.

Knowledge is like fire 'cause it breaks down things so you can see what they truly are. It's like how a fire breaks your body down to carbon.

Now the ears of my ears awake and now the eyes of my eyes are opened.

Even a room which must be dark needs at least a crack of light to know how dark it is.

One must open men's eyes, not tear them out.

Theory is continually the precursor of truth; we must pass through the twilight and its shade, to arrive at the full and perfect day.

Thinking does not lead to truth; truth is the beginning of thought.