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Empathy is the highest form of knowledge. (Sometimes this appears as ‘Empathy is the highest form of knowledge, for it requires us to suspend our egos and live in another's world’.)
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Very common online pop-psychological slogan which has been traced no further than a graduation speech to students at San Francisco University High School given by Bill Bullard, who within the speech attributes it to George Eliot. [https://web.archive.org/
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We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.
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This quotation, often attributed on the Internet to Plato, cannot be found in any of Plato's writings, nor can it be found in any published work anywhere until recent years. If it really were a quotation by Plato, then some author in the recorded literatu
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Music is a moral law.  It gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, a charm to sadness, gaiety and life to everything.  It is the essence of order, and leads to all that is good, just, and beautiful, of which it is the invisible, but nevertheless dazzling, passionate, and eternal form.

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This quotation is not known to exist in Plato's writings; It apparently first appeared as a quotation attributed to Plato in The Pleasures of Life, Part II by Sir John Lubbock (Macmillan and Company, London and New York), published in 1889.
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Necessity is the mother of invention.
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Commonly misattributed due to Benjamin Jowett's popular idiomatic translation (1871) of Plato's Republic, Book II, 369c as "The true creator is necessity, who is the mother of our invention."  Jowett's translation is noted for injecting flowery, if n
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Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.
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Attributed to Plato in No Ordinary Moments: A Peaceful Warrior's Guide to Daily Life (1992) by Dan Millman.  It has also been wrongly attributed to Philo.  It is a variant of the Christmas message "Be pitiful, for every man is fighting a hard ba
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Watch a man at play for an hour and you can learn more about him than in talking to him for a year.
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Attributed to Plato in Confidence : How to Succeed at Being Yourself (1987) by Alan Loy McGinnis, this is probably a paraphrase of a statement which occurs in Letter of Advice to a Young Gentleman Leaving the University Concerning His Behaviour and Conver
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Only the dead have seen the end of war.
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Attributed to Plato by General Douglas MacArthur, earliest source found is work of George Santayana who doesn't attribute it to anyone. | [http://plato-dialogues.org/faq/faq008.htm Plato and his dialogues by Bernard SUZANNE, "Frequently Asked Questions ab
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The highest form of pure thought is in mathematics.
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Also attributed on quote sites without a source, and can be found in some recent non-academic books but also without a source, and google books shows [https://www.google.com/search?q=%22highest+form+of+pure+thought%22&udm=36&tbs=cdr%3A1%2Ccd_min%3A1900%2C
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Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they would like to say something. As empty vessels make the loudest sounds, so they that have the least wit are the greatest babblers.
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Often attributed to Plato, it cannot be found completely in any of his writings ([http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=796 see this]). The quote is attributed to Plato in A Dictionary of Thoughts: Being a Cyclopedia of Laconic Quotations from the Best
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Ignorance, the root and stem of all evil.
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Attributed to Plato on quotes sites but never sourced.
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