The wisest have the most authority.
- Topic: Wisdom
- Location: Hawaii, Maui
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More Quotes from Plato
He who is of a calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age, but to him who is of an opposite disposition, youth and age are equally a burden.
No man should be angry with what is true.
Those who are able to see beyond the shadows and lies of their culture will never be understood, let alone believed, by the masses.
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We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it—and stop there; lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove lid. She will never sit down on a hot stove lid again—and that is well; but also she will never sit down on a cold one any more.
Perfect wisdom has four parts; Wisdom, the principle of doing things right. Justice, the principle of doing things equally in public and private. Fortitude, the principle of not fleeing danger, but meeting it. Temperance, the principle of subduing desires and living moderately.
Calmness of mind is one of the beautiful jewels of wisdom.
In life, all good things come hard, but wisdom is the hardest to come by.
A wise man proportions his belief to the evidence.
There is a wisdom in this beyond the rules of physic. A man’s own observation, what he finds good of and what he finds hurt of, is the best physic to preserve health.
Wisdom is nothing but a preparation of the soul, a capacity, a secret art of thinking, feeling and breathing thoughts of unity at every moment of life.
