Plato Quotes

Wisdom is exercised in the choices you make.

Learn what is true in order to do what is right.

Prudence is the virtue of the senses. It is the science of appearances. It is the outmost action of the inward life.

Knowing what is right does not make a sagacious man.

The Errors of a Wise Man make your Rule Rather than the Perfections of a Fool.

Wisdom is the winner over good luck.

Prudence is not only the first in rank of the virtues political and moral, but she is the director and regulator, the standard of them all.

Virtue makes us aim at the right end, and practical wisdom makes us take the right means.

Luck, bad if not good, will always be with us. But it has a way of favoring the intelligent and showing its back to the stupid.

The unassuming youth seeking instruction with humility gains good fortune.

Fortune truly helps those who are of good judgment.

Sometimes you make plays, sometimes you don't.

I've always been lucky enough to have made the right decisions, if I can say that. I've always felt that I've had good fortune in that way.

Men do not fail commonly for want of knowledge, but for want of prudence to give wisdom the preference.

Goodness without wisdom always accomplishes evil.

Fools give you reasons, wise men never try.

There is wisdom in the selection of wisdom.

A determination never to do what is wrong, prudence, and good-humor, will go far toward securing to you the estimation of the world.

The only real difference between a wise man and a fool, Moore knew, was that the wise man tended to make more serious mistakes—and only because no one trusted a fool with really crucial decisions; only the wise had the opportunity to lose battles, or nations.

Wisdom consists of knowing how to distinguish the nature of trouble, and in choosing the lesser evil.

It is the accumulative weight of our disciplines and our judgments that leads us to either fortune or failure.

...wisdom is in large part the knowledge of how to avoid doing dumb things, and thus grows globally as a function of the published inventory of stupid mistakes.

When you know for yourselves, 'These things are wholesome; these things are blameless; these things are praised by the wise; these things, if undertaken and practiced, lead to welfare and happiness,' then you should engage in them.

Be wise, because the world needs more wisdom. And if you cannot be wise, pretend to be someone who is wise, and then just behave like they would.