Plato Quotes
Mankind will never see an end of trouble until lovers of wisdom come to hold political power, or the holders of power become lovers of wisdom.
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The world is indeed comic, but the joke is on mankind.
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Outside of hip-hop, it was in comics that I most often found the aesthetics and wisdom of my world reflected.
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Second, this epic tale allows the audience to actually listen to the Native Americans and receive their wisdom. Spielberg conveys the respect for Native Americans that is normally lacking in Western films.
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Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.
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Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.
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All mankind love a lover.
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The democratic system is premised on trust in the masses' wisdom. We believe that the collective is wiser than its parts and that, at the end of the day, it shall make the right choices and take the right decisions.
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Before we acquire great power we must acquire wisdom to use it well.
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The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.
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Women are amazing lovers.
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To suppose more than one supreme Source of infinite wisdom, power, and all perfections, is to assert that there is no supreme Being in existence.
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If you want a thing done well, do it yourself.
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No party has a monopoly on wisdom. No democracy works without compromise. But when Governor Romney and his allies in Congress tell us we can somehow lower our deficit by spending trillions more on new tax breaks for the wealthy - well, you do the math. I refuse to go along with that. And as long as I'm President, I never will.
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We can't really digest food unless there's hunger. So we can't really assimilate spiritual wisdom unless we feel the need for it.
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Now all the knowledge and wisdom that is in creatures, whether angels or men, is nothing else but a participation of that one eternal, immutable and increased wisdom of God.
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What could be more lonely than to be enveloped in silence, to be the last of your people to speak your native tongue, to have no way to pass on the wisdom of the elders, to anticipate the promise of the children. This tragic fate is indeed the plight of someone somewhere roughly every two weeks.
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Life is the only real counselor; wisdom unfiltered through personal experience does not become a part of the moral tissue.
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One man's justice is another's injustice; one man's beauty another's ugliness; one man's wisdom another's folly.
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I agree that two and two make four is an excellent thing; but to give everything its due, two and two make five is also a very fine thing.
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There is, however, a limit at which forbearance ceases to be a virtue.
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I made my first movie when I was five.
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Mankind will never see an end of trouble until lovers of wisdom come to hold political power, or the holders of power become lovers of wisdom.
