Plato Quotes

Wisdom is found only in truth.

Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.

Happy is the one who knows the causes of things.

Then may we not fairly plead in reply that our true lover of knowledge naturally strives for truth, and is not content with common opinion, but soars with undimmed and unwearied passion till he grasps the essential nature of things with the mental faculty fitted to do so, that is, with the faculty which is akin to reality, and which approaches and unites with it, and begets intelligence and truth as children, and is only released from travail when it has thus reached knowledge and true life and satisfaction?

It is the mission of the twentieth century to elucidate the irrational.

Logic is the beginning of wisdom, not the end.

The beginning of all wisdom is recognition of facts

Data is not necessarily information. Information does not necessarily lead to knowledge. And knowledge is not always sufficient to discover truth and breed wisdom.

Ability to discern that what is true is true, and that what is false is false, is the characteristic of intelligence.

An epigram often flashes light into regions where reason shines but dimly.

Information is endlessly available to us; where shall wisdom be found?

Deep is the well of truth and long does it take to know what has fallen into its depths.

Wisdom is only found in truth.

Doubt is the vestibule through which all must pass before they can enter into the temple of wisdom.

Truth is ever to be found in simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.

After all, the ultimate goal of all research is not objectivity, but truth.

The world is divided into men who have wit and no religion and men who have religion and no wit.

Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.

All truth, in the long run, is only common sense clarified.

Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger portion of the truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant.

Two half philosophers will probably never a whole metaphysician make.

Light is the symbol of truth.

The fool wonders, the wise man asks.

The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.

The truth of things is the chief nutriment of superior intellects.