"Ignorance is the root cause of all..." - Quote by Plato

“I do not live to play, but I play in order that I may live, and return with greater zest to the labors of life.”

“States will never be happy untilrulers become philosophers orphilosophers become rulers.”

“. . . you did not seem to me over-fond of money. And this is the way in general with those who have not made it themselves, while those who have are twice as fond of it as anyone else. For just as poets are fond of their own poems, and fathers of their own children, so money-makers become devoted to money, not only because, like other people, they find it useful, but because it's their own creation.”

“There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.”

“If he who does not know kept silent, discord would cease.”

“Ignorant people think it is the noise which fighting cats make that is so aggravating, but it ain't so; it is the sickening grammar that they use.”

“Education doesn't change life much. It just lifts trouble to a higher plane of regard.”

“We have no right to express an opinion until we know all of the answers.”

“Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of Government except all those others that have been”