Quotes About Plato Rhetoric

#1. Like mythology, Greek philosophy has a tendency to personify ideas. And the Sophist is not merely a teacher of rhetoric for a fee of one or fifty drachmae (Crat.), but an ideal of Plato's in which the falsehood of all mankind is reflected.

Plato

#2. We get on well and it won't be too much trouble spending so much time with him. He has a strange way of sleeping as he likes to kick off all the blankets and just have them up by his chest.

Robbie Keane

#3. Thus rhetoric, it seems, is a producer of persuasion for belief, not for instruction in the matter of right and wrong ... And so the rhetorician's business is not to instruct a law court or a public meeting in matters of right and wrong, but only to make them believe.

Plato

#4. Arguments, like men, are often pretenders.

Plato

#5. Always wear expensive shoes. People notice.

Brian Koslow

#6. I knew what type of player I was: a free agent, a small kid who came from a small school.

Victor Cruz

#7. No matter how long you lived, you never got used to seeing terrible things.

Cassandra Clare

#8. Every beginning is only a sequel, after all, and the book of events is always open halfway through.

Wislawa Szymborska

#9. To suffer is better than to do evil;' and the art of rhetoric is described as only useful for the purpose of self-accusation.

Plato

#10. When [a man] thinks that he is reasoning he is really disputing, just because he cannot define and divide, and so know that of which he is speaking; and he will pursue a merely verbal opposition in the spirit of contention and not of fair discussion.

Plato

#11. The matter is as it is in all other cases: if it is naturally in you to be a good orator, a notable orator you will be when you have acquired knowledge and practice ...

Plato