Plato Quotes

The object of knowledge is what exists and its function to know about reality.

Truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.

Man can embody truth but he cannot know it.

The ultimate aim of the human mind, in all its efforts, is to become acquainted with Truth.

The Study of philosophy is not that we may know what men have thought, but what the truth of things is.

And is there anything more closely connected with wisdom than truth?

Those whose hearts are fixed on Reality itself deserve the title of Philosophers.

The courage of the truth is the first condition of philosophic study.

One trait in the philosopher's character we can assume is his love of the knowledge that reveals eternal reality, the realm unaffected by change and decay.

The more false we destroy, the more room there will be for the true.

How wrong people always were when they said: 'It's better to know the worst than go on not knowing either way.' No; they had it exactly the wrong way round. Tell me the truth, doctor, I'd sooner know. But only if the truth is what I want to hear.

When one first seeks the truth, one separates oneself from it.

Reality lies far beyond space and time, and I need to know why.

Technology is therefore no mere means. Technology is a way of revealing. If we give heed to this, then another whole realm for the essence of technology will open itself up to us. It is the realm of revealing, i.e., of truth

The Truth lies not in the Yes and not in the No, but in the knowledge and the beginning from which the Yes and the No arise.

Wisdom is only found in truth.

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

He who does not lie does not know what truth is.

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?

Truth is available to the ears that can hear it.

Truth is in all things, even partly, in error.

What can we say with certainty?

Science deals exclusively with things as they are in themselves.

Truth . . . and if mine eyes Can bear its blaze, and trace its symmetries, Measure its distance, and its advent wait, I am no prophet - I but calculate.