Plato

"Thinking: the talking of the soul with itself."

"One of the penalties of refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors."

"Ideas are the source of all things"

"Education is teaching our children to desire the right things."

"Knowledge is the food of the soul."

"Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous."

"Only the dead have seen the end of war."

"You should not honor men more than truth."

"We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light."

"Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history."

"Knowledge is the food of the soul."

"Life must be lived as play."

"Wise men speak because they have something to say; fools because they have to say something."

"The most effective kind of education is that a child should play amongst lovely things."

"Ideas are the source of all things"

"At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet."

"Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion has no hold on the mind. Therefore do not use compulsion, but let early education be a sort of amusement; you will then be better able to discover the child's natural bent."

"Do not train a child to learn by force or harshness; but direct them to it by what amuses their minds, so that you may be better able to discover with accuracy the peculiar bent of the genius of each."

"The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men."

"Calligraphy is a geometry of the soul which manifests itself physically."