Wisdom Quote by Plato — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“A good decision is based on knowledge and not on numbers.”

“If they either do not exist (gods), or do not concern themselves with the affairs of men, why need we concern ourselves to evade their observation?”

“In practice people who study philosophy too long become very odd birds, not to say thoroughly vicious; while even those who are the best of them are reduced by...[philosophy] to complete uselessness as members of society.”

“Ideas are the source of all things”

“For this feeling of wonder shows that you are a philosopher, since wonder is the only beginning of philosophy.”

“No god loves knowledge or desire wisdom, for they are already wise; nor does anyone who is wise love wisdom.”

“Silence at the proper season is wisdom, and better than any speech.”

“Do you want me to tell you what I give a shit about at age sixty-five', Cullen said, 'and what I don't give a shit about?'”

“What God says is best, indeed is best, though all men in the world are against it. Seeing, then, that God prefers his religion; seeing God prefers a tender conscience; seeing they that make themselves fools for the kingdom of heaven are wisest; and that the poor man that loveth Christ is richer than the greatest man in the world that hates him: Shame, depart, thou art an enemy to my salvation.”

“Jasnah had once defined a fool as a person who ignored information because it disagreed with desired results.”

“Children are the closest we have to wisdom, and they become adults the moment that final drop of everything mysterious is strained from them.”

“Stay away from any minute of joy that can bring you a lifetime of sorrow.”