Category Quotations

Plato says: “The excessive increase of anything causes a reaction in the opposite direction.”

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 around. It shouldn’t be the art of implanting sight in the organ, but should proceed…

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.”