Plato Quotes

Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.

One should follow a man of wisdom who rebukes one for one's faults, as one would follow a guide to some buried treasure. To one who follows such a wise man, it will be an advantage and not a disadvantage.

By associating with wise people you will become wise yourself.

It's said that a wise person learns from his mistakes. A wiser one learns from others' mistakes. But the wisest person of all learns from others's successes.

If we walk with the wise, we will grow wise.

I believe if you act with people who are better than you, it's only going to make you better.

I don't think there is anything wrong with learning from people who are better than you.

I admire people who re-create themselves. And it seems to me that what gives us all the opportunity to be heroic in our own lives is that we work to heal ourselves and be better than we were yesterday.

We are all human and fall short of where we need to be. We must never stop trying to be the best we can be.

Undoubtedly a man is to labor to better his condition, but first to better himself.

What I'd like to pass on to my children is the thirst for knowledge. It's something I experience every day that I learned from my father. He always taught me that no matter how long you've done something, you can always learn something new and be better at what you do.

At the end of the day, you got to learn from people that been through what you been through; they help you learn from your mistakes.

A smart man makes a mistake, learns from it, and never makes that mistake again. But a wise man finds a smart man and learns from him how to avoid the mistake altogether.

You have to be confident in who you are and what you're doing. Of course, you try to evolve. I would never tell you, 'Today is the best I will ever be.' I'm always trying to be a better chef, a better dad, a better person.

You have to find a way to improve yourself.

In this coming year, I will seek knowledge from those wiser than me and try to teach those who wish to learn from me. I love being alive, and I will be the best man I possibly can.

The secret of the wise man is to learn from the errors of others.

I think you can learn from other people's mistakes and other people's strengths, and that is why I have always been watching, with particular attention, other drivers - and not only drivers at the top.

If one is not oneself a sage or saint, the best thing one can do is to study the words of those who were.

Patience helps us to view imperfections in others more generously to the end that we may learn to be more wise than they have been.

Everyone and everything is in some degree or other our teacher.

There is no more important rule of conduct in the world than this: attach yourself as much as you can to people who are abler than you and yet not so very different that you cannot understand them.

Experience is not the best teacher. Other people's experience is the best teacher.

When I walk along with two others, from at least one I will be able to learn.

Be better tomorrow than you are today.