Plato Quotes

Rhetoric, it seems, is a producer of persuasion for belief, not for instruction in the matter of right and wrong … And so the rhetorician's business is not to instruct a law court or a public meeting in matters of right and wrong, but only to make them believe.

Plato

Quotes to Explore

Don't go getting mixed up in the business of your betters, or you'll land in trouble too big for you.

J. R. R. Tolkien
- Up
- Business
- Trouble
We believe it is comprehensive international sanctions against the white regime that will save us from the slaughter of hundreds of thousands of South Africans, black and white.

Oliver Tambo
We want to believe that we're invulnerable, and that people who get tricked deserve it. Well, they don't. And someday the arrogant types who mock the gullible are likely to get their turn to wear the dunce cap.

Walter Kirn
- People
- Believe
- Want
Truth-tellers who expect others to believe them tend to speak naturally and un-self-consciously. But if they don't expect to be believed, they may try too hard to seem honest. Unfortunately, the result makes them sound less believable. Obviously, then, not every oddly phrased statement is a lie.

Pamela Meyer
- Believe
- May
- Truth
High fashion has become representative of stability in unstable places; that allows you to have a voice in the world stage.

Hailey Gates
- World
- High
- Fashion
There are many things which swallow up men's thoughts while they live, which they will think little of when they are dying. Hundreds are wholly absorbed in political schemes and seem to care for nothing but the advancement of their own party. Myriads are buried in business and money matters and seem to neglect everything else but this world.

J. C. Ryle
- Up
- World
- Men