Plato

"Ideas are the source of all things"

"Life must be lived as play."

"You should not honor men more than truth."

"Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history."

"Knowledge is the food of the soul."

"Knowledge is the food of the soul."

"The soul of him who has education is whole and perfect and escapes the worst disease, but, if a man's education be neglected, he walks lamely through life and returns good for nothing to the world below."

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

"Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle."

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

"He was a wise man who invented God."

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

"Knowledge unqualified is knowledge simply of something learned."

"The god of love lives in a state of need. It is a need. It is an urge. It is a homeostatic imbalance. Like hunger and thirst, it's almost impossible to stamp out."

"The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future life"

"Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods."

"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."

"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."

"To conquer oneself is the best and noblest victory; to be vanquished by one's own nature is the worst and most ignoble defeat."

"In politics we presume that everyone who knows how to get votes knows how to administer a city or a state. When we are ill... we do not ask for the handsomest physician, or the most eloquent one."