Top 27 Plato Geometry Quotes
#1. Geometry will draw the soul toward truth and create the spirit of philosophy.
Plato
#2. Experience proves that anyone who has studied geometry is infinitely quicker to grasp difficult subjects than one who has not.
Plato
#3. In the basement, with Ruth, I began to learn that anger, hate, fear and loneliness are all one button awaiting the touch of just a single finger to set them blazing toward destruction.
Jack Ketchum
#4. They asked for Plato's assistance. He told them: "You hated wisdom and ran away from geometry, therefore God has afflicted you a punishment, for wisdom and philosophical knowledge have a high rank with God." ... The plague was lifted and they ceased to defame the branches of theoretical knowledge.
Mulla Sadra
#5. The [Nuremberg Trial was] the biggest legal farce in history ... the legend about six million supposedly murdered Jews acquired a legal basis, even though the court did not have a single document signed by A. Hitler concerning the extermination of Jews ...
Rick Sanchez
#6. Geometry draws the soul towards truth.
Plato
#7. There's a certain type of character that you can't help but come in contact with growing up and living in Brooklyn and Long Island. A certain mixture of moxie, heart, and a wise guy sense of humor.
Steve Buscemi
#8. Calligraphy is a geometry of the soul which manifests itself physically.
Plato
#9. MMA for me was a stepping stone in my life as a man to grow ... The stress and the fears and anxiety you've got to overcome in that moment is not something you're ever going to gain in a daily lifetime routine.
Enson Inoue
#10. I'm not built for war. I'm built for entertainment. I'm built for jokes - either telling them or being the butt of them.
Josh Peck
#12. The dinosaurs invented Jesus to test our confidence in science.
Karl Hess
#13. Geometry existed before creation.
Plato
#14. I believe in steel swords, gold coins, and man's wits. ( ... ) And I believe there once were dragons. I've seen their skulls, after all.
George R R Martin
#15. It is through geometry that one purifies the eye of the soul.
Plato
#16. The science [geometry] is pursued for the sake of the knowledge of what eternally exists, and not of what comes for a moment into existence, and then perishes.
Plato
#17. Writing is the geometry of the soul.
Plato
#18. On Plato's door, it says let no one enter who does not know geometry. On Love's door, it says let no one enter who does not know cry!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#19. The knowledge of which geometry aims is the knowledge of the eternal.
Plato
#20. Let no-one ignorant of geometry enter. Said to have been inscribed above the door of Plato's Academy.
Plato
#21. She wasn't really going to church anywhere, but she remained a contemporary evangelical to the back teeth. She had lost her faith while still managing to hang on to all the platitudes.
Douglas Wilson
#22. Let no one destitute of Geometry enter my doors.
Plato
#23. It seems to us unwise to have insisted on teaching geometry to the younger Dionysius, tyrant of Syracuse, in order to make him a good king, but from Plato's point of view it was essential. He was sufficiently Pythagorean to think that without mathematics no true wisdom is possible.
Bertrand Russell
#24. The ludicrous state of solid geometry made me pass over this branch.
Plato
#25. If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true is really true, there would be little hope of advance.
Orville Wright
#26. You specialize in something until one day you find it is specializing in you.
Arthur Miller
#27. What is it then? Life? When it is only agony, why not take it? Is that not the kinder thing?
Carol Wallace
