Authors
Plato
428 BC – 348 BC
Plato was an ancient Greek philosopher who studied under Socrates and later founded one of the world's first schools, the Academy in Athens. He wrote his ideas as dialogues — conversations between characters — exploring justice, truth, and the ideal society. His student Aristotle went on to become one of history's greatest thinkers too.
Quotes
“Wonder is the feeling of a philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.”
“Rhythm and harmony find their way into the inward places of the soul.”
“You know also that the beginning is the most important part of any work, especially in the case of a young and tender thing; for that is the time at which the character is being formed and the desired impression is more readily taken.”
“Did you never observe how imitations, beginning in early youth and continuing far into life, at length grow into habits and become a second nature, affecting body, voice, and mind?”
“knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.”
“Then, my good friend, I said, do not use compulsion, but let early education be a sort of amusement; you will then be better able to find out the natural bent.”
“For a young person cannot judge what is allegorical and what is literal; anything that he receives into his mind at that age is likely to become indelible and unalterable; and therefore it is most important that the tales which the young first hear should be models of virtuous thoughts.”