Democritus Quotes

It is better to destroy one's own errors than those of others.

Democritus

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• It's true about the eyes being the window to the soul. Your face can be etched with worry, and twisted by ageing, but the eyes tell the true story of who you are.

  

  Naomie Harris
  • True
  • Soul
  • Eyes

• I have a pickup truck. And I prefer to be with dogs or on my sailboat than in a car - actually, more than any other place on Earth.

  

  Gary Paulsen
  • Earth
  • Car
  • Truck

• Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another, but let him work diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence when built.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Work
  • House
  • Violence

• As a film actor, you don't often get that opportunity to meet with your audience and take your applause on stage.

  

  Warwick Davis
  • Opportunity
  • Audience
  • Stage

• The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.

  

  Isaac Asimov
  • Life
  • Society
  • Science

• I play the game as honestly as I can. If the referee gives a penalty there is nothing you can do.

  

  Wayne Rooney
  • Game
  • You
  • Play

• Most companies don't have the luxury of focusing exclusively on innovation. They have to innovate while stamping out zillions of widgets or processing billions of transactions.

  

  Gary Hamel
  • Innovation
  • Luxury
  • While

• My brothers and I always did improv stuff in our basement with our friends; we're super nerds, and that was our way of spending a Friday night.

  

  Tatiana Maslany
  • Friends
  • Night
  • Way

• You can go and see the Katihar railway station. This is the most beautiful station in Bihar, even better than the Patna junction.

  

  Tariq Anwar
  • Beautiful
  • Most Beautiful

• I am still quick at 250 to 260 lbs and I am smarter.

  

  Larry Holmes
  • Smarter
  • Quick

• I used to play football with a load of lads, and I would be like a secret agent going out with a hat on so they wouldn't see my hair in a bun.

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
  • Football
  • Hair
  • Hat

• It is not the 'greatness,' the intensity, of the emotions, the components, but the intensity of the artistic process, the pressure, so to speak, under which the fusion takes place, that counts.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Greatness

• 我们需要的是热烈而镇定的情绪，紧张而有秩序的工作。

  

  Mao Zedong

• The indispensible judicial requisite is intellectual humility.

  

  Felix Frankfurter
  • Humility

• Interest, say in mathematics, has usually been killed by routine teaching, exactly as the literary interest... has been killed...

  

  Jacob Bronowski

• Call me bored, but don't call me boring.

  

  Larry Wall
  • Bored

• If men could only know each other, they would never either idolize or hate.

  

  Elbert Hubbard
  • Men
  • Hate

• My standard uniform is a T-shirt and jeans.

  

  Matt Bomer

• We need laws that protect everyone - men and women, straights and gays, regardless of sexual perversion...ah, persuasion.

  

  Bella Abzug
  • Men
  • Women
  • Laws

• Certainly, truth should be strenuous and bold; but the strongest things are not always the noisiest, as any one may see who compares scolding with logic.

  

  Edwin Hubbell Chapin
  • Truth
  • Logic
  • Compares

• Once a piece of writing gets to a moment where it's not going to get much better than it already is, marinate it. If you still like the piece, send it out and see what others think. If not, it's time to put it away and forget about it for a while.

  

  David Starkey
  • Thinking
  • Writing
  • Moments

• Giving free advice is a sad waste of effort. In the first place, no man will act upon it unless he is already inclined to do so. Secondly, when a man lays his case before you, the idea that he is asking your advice is a polite fabrication. He merely is suggesting that he is doing so, while as a fact his real object is to acquaint you with his personal activity. He wants to talk to somebody, being a natural gossip or gadder, and he plays upon your propensity for "giving advice" in order to get an audience.

  

  William H. McMaster
  • Audience
  • Natural
  • Gossip

• It is better to destroy one's own errors than those of others.

  

  Democritus