Plato Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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How can you not love a man banging on the drums? He knows how to keep a rhythm.
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No one today knows what is indecent.
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It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err.
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Elections have consequences, and at the end of the day, I won. So I think on that one I trump you.
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He to whom the present is the only thing that is present, knows nothing of the age in which he lives.
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Every great man nowadays has his disciples, and it is always Judas who writes the biography.
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Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.
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It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.
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Giving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world. I know because I've done it thousands of times.
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If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.
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Patriot: the person who can holler the loudest without knowing what he is hollering about.
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Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.
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Laws control the lesser man... Right conduct controls the greater one.
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The lack of money is the root of all evil.
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A round man cannot be expected to fit in a square hole right away. He must have time to modify his shape.
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The reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated.
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Martyrdom covers a multitude of sins.
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Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.
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It seems so strange that the things I was chasing Have all evaporated like a distant dream Petty ambition, petty obstruction Something in between... I really thought it would go on forever Never believed they would sever the ties All of the questions remaining unanswered A stranger's reflection in a stranger's eyes...
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In our desire to impose form on the world and our lives we have lost the capacity to see the form that is already there; and in that lies not liberation but alienation, the cutting off from things as they really are.
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As children, many of us were taught never to talk to strangers. As parents and grandparents, our message must change with technology to include strangers on the Internet.
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The more scared we are of a work or calling, the more sure we can be that we have to do it.
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Wisest is he who knows what he does not know.
