Plato

Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth.

Aristotle

No civilization, including Plato's, has ever been destroyed because its citizens learned too much.

Robert McKee

Gardening is the handiest excuse for being a philosopher. Nobody guesses, nobody accuses, nobody knows, but there you are, Plato in the peonies, Socra...

Ray Bradbury

And, believe me, if I were again beginning my studies, I should follow the advice of Plato and start with mathematics.

Galileo Galilei