Category Quotations

Plato says: “That’s what education should be,” I said, “the art of orientation. Educators should devise the simplest and most effective methods of turning minds

Plato says: “Physical excellence does not of itself produce a good mind and character: on the other hand, excellence of mind and character will make the best of the physique it is given.”

Plato says: “People are like dirt. They can either nourish you and help you grow as a person or they can stunt your growth and make you wilt and die.”

Plato says: “No matter how hard you fight the darkness, every light casts a shadow, and the closer you get to the light, the darker that shadow becomes.”

Plato says: “Never discourage anyone…who continually makes progress, no matter how slow.”

Plato says: “Musical training is a more potent instrument than any other, because rhythm and harmony find their way into the inward places of the soul.”

Plato says: “I would teach children music, physics, and philosophy; but most importantly music, for the patterns in music and all the arts are the keys to learning”

Plato says: “I thought to myself: I am wiser than this man; neither of us probably knows anything that is really good, but he thinks he has knowledge, when he has not, while I, having no knowledge, do not think…

Plato says: “Honesty is for the most part less profitable than dishonesty.”

Plato says: “Harmony and grace depend on simplicity… the true simplicity of a rightly and nobly ordered mind and character.”