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

- Aristotle

I've deliberately studied many things that I know, going in, I won't be able to assimilate. I read Plato, St. Thomas, the mystics, to exercise my mind.

- Don Ameche

Plato was a bore.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

All thought is naught but a footnote to Plato.

- George Santayana

The first book I ever really read was Plato's 'Republic,' and then I had to go over that five times or something.

- Huey Newton