Plato Quotes

There are two sentences inscribed upon the Ancient oracle... "Know thyself" and "Nothing too much"; and upon these all other precepts depend.

Know thyself.

Know thyself,’ said Socrates. Know thyself,’ said Sappho, ‘and make sure that the Church never finds out.

He who devotes sixteen hours a day to hard study may become at sixty as wise as he thought himself at twenty.

When I look around, I begin to understand what Socrates meant when he said, 'How much there is in the world I do not want.'

I am not one who was born in the possession of knowledge; I am one who is fond of antiquity, and earnest in seeking it there.

I think that I need to learn a lot, a lot.

I take the work seriously. Which is why I always swing for the fences whenever I voice a character. But that said, I don't take myself all that seriously.

One of the perks of being a psychologist is access to tools that allow you to carry out the injunction to know thyself.

Acting requires a lot of discipline to go with the obsession. It's a path of knowledge, and of self-knowledge. Sometimes you get lost on the path. And then you find yourself again.

If you want to be truly successful invest in yourself to get the knowledge you need to find your unique factor. When you find it and focus on it and persevere your success will blossom.

Ambition is best tempered with self-knowledge!

Learn from me, if not by my precepts, then by my example, how dangerous is the pursuit of knowledge and how much happier is that man who believes his native town to be the world than he who aspires to be greater than his nature will allow.

Don't let your heart get big because of your knowledge. Take counsel with the ignorant as well as with the scholar.

Our great power does not mean we can do whatever we want whenever we want, nor should we assume we have all the wisdom and knowledge necessary to succeed.

If you want to be great, there are so many talented players who have come in and out the league. But only a few of them are remembered as being great. It's because they were willing to say they don't know. And I'm willing to say that I don't know everything.

Whatever faults I may have, I do know a player.

I'm happy that people think of me as the greatest tap-dancer that ever lived. But it's just a rumor. Because the greatest dancer that ever lived knows everything, and I don't. I'm still learning. I still have a lot of work to do.

What does a life of total dedication to truth mean? It means, first of all, a life of continuous and never-ending stringent self-examination. We know the world only through our relationship to it. Therefore, to know the world, we must not only examine it but we must simultaneously examine the examiner.

Out of all those centuries the Greeks can count seven sages at the most, and if anyone looks at them more closely I swear he'll not find so much as a half-wise man or even a third of a wise man among them.

But truly, if I were not Alexander, I would be Diogenes.

We should desire very few things passionately if we did but perfectly know the nature of the things we desire.

This precept descended from Heaven: know thyself.

To 'know Thyself' is considered quite an accomplishment.

From Architecture down to the Zodiac, every science worthy of the name was imported by the Greeks