"Seven years of silent inquiry are needful..." - Quote by Plato
Seven years of silent inquiry are needful for a man to learn the truth, but fourteen in order to learn how to make it known to his fellow-men.
More by Plato
“No intelligent man will ever be so bold as to put into language those things which his reason has contemplated.”
“Our object in the construction of the state is the greatest happiness of the whole, and not that of any one class.”
“If you do not take an interest in the affairs of your government, then you are doomed to live under the rule of fools.”
More on Truth
“It was as if someone had taken a tiny bead of pure life and decking it as lightly as possible with down and feathers, had set it dancing and zigzagging to show us the true nature of life.”
“Truth has scarce done so much good in the world as the false appearances of it have done hurt.”
“What can a meaning outside my condition mean to me? I can understand only in human terms. What I touch, what resists me - that I understand. And these two certainties - my appetite for the absolute and for unity and the impossibility of reducing this world to a rational and reasonable principle - I also know that I cannot reconcile them. What other truth can I admit without lying, without bringing in a hope I lack and which means nothing within the limits of my conditions?”