Plato Quotes

'That is the story. Do you think there is any way of making them believe it?' ' Not in the first generation', he said, 'but you might succeed with the second and later generations.'

Plato

• Believe
• Story
• Generations

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• I believe that entrepreneurs play an unmatched role and the accelerating pace of innovation is transforming the face of global challenges. You must think about the solution differently when you're trying to impact 1 billion people rather than affecting 1 million people.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • People
  • Believe
  • Trying

• Well, I happen to believe all business is female business.

  

  Eddie Bernice Johnson
  • Believe
  • Business
  • Happen

• For the record, I believe elected officials should talk about faith. Our founders believed the moral principles of faith were indispensable to our nation's survival. The Declaration of Independence mentions God four times.

  

  Gary Bauer
  • God
  • Believe
  • Faith

• I have been a film buff all my life and believe that the finest cinema is fully the equal of the best novels.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Best

• I've always considered myself a fairly romantic person. I believe in love and falling in love at a young age.

  

  Mandy Moore
  • Believe
  • Love
  • Person

• I believe love at first sight is possible. Centuries of literature and art and beauty has been dedicated to that idea, so who am I to argue, even if I've never experienced it?

  

  Maggie Grace
  • Believe
  • Love
  • For Him

• Whenever societies do well, they believe that there is something in their cultural DNA that made it happen.

  

  Fareed Zakaria
  • Believe
  • Happen
  • DNA

• I held a conference in Harvard where Americans said they didn't believe in risk. They thought it was just European hysteria. Then the terrorist attacks happened and there was a complete conversion. Suddenly terrorism was the central risk.

  

  Ulrich Beck
  • Believe
  • Risk
  • Thought

• I, like most of my friends, couldn't believe I bought a mountain called Misery Mountain, because it was so appropriate.

  

  Caleb Carr
  • Believe
  • Friends
  • Mountain

• For a lot of people, Superman is and has always been America's hero. He stands for what we believe is the best within us: limitless strength tempered by compassion, that can bear adversity and emerge stronger on the other side. He stands for what we all feel we would like to be able to stand for, when standing is hardest.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • People
  • Believe
  • America

• I believe that given the audience attention level, we could do an even more compelling 90 minutes.

  

  Vince McMahon
  • Believe
  • Attention
  • Audience

• I loved working with kids, and kids are the most incredibly discerning audience. And if they don't believe you, they will tell you and let you know. I mean, kids is where it's at, really.

  

  Sally Hawkins
  • Believe
  • Kids
  • Know

• I never felt at home in London, because people were constantly telling me I didn't belong here, so after a while, you tend to believe that.

  

  Naveen Andrews
  • People
  • Believe
  • Home

• It's always been a great survival value for people to believe they belong to a superior tribe. That's just in human relationships.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • People
  • Great
  • Believe

• The word 'belief' is a difficult thing for me. I don't believe. I must have a reason for a certain hypothesis. Either I know a thing, and then I know it – I don't need to believe it.

  

  Carl Jung
  • Believe
  • Know
  • Reason

• I believe in tackling things you're afraid of.

  

  Hannah Storm
  • Believe
  • You
  • I Believe

• The Asian brand, which I admire for having become a global success, is Samsung. In comparison, we're just starting, but I believe that we at Uniqlo will be the next Asian brand to do well globally.

  

  Tadashi Yanai
  • Believe
  • Success
  • Starting

• People give us credit only for what we ourselves believe.

  

  Fay Weldon
  • People
  • Believe
  • Credit

• I wash my face with Creme de la Mer cleansing foam. I love Charlotte Tilbury Magic Cream - it's got SPF15 in it, which I love - and then I'll use a little eye cream by Sisley, which I'm obsessed with. That's what I generally use every day.

  

  Poppy Delevingne
  • Magic

• The word 'star' doesn't mean an awful lot to me. 'Good actor' and having the respect of one's peers means more.

  

  Pierce Brosnan
  • Good
  • Respect
  • Star

• It's such a crass idea - you're either in love or out of love.

  

  Damien Hirst
  • Love
  • Idea
  • Crass

• There is a boundary to men's passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are under the influence of imagination.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Men
  • Imagination
  • Influence

• People have evolved into something selfish, greedy and intolerant. People are unaccepting, because of religion, race, gender, sexual orientation... I've seen it in punk clubs, and I've seen it in the world.

  

  Gerard Way My Chemical Romance
  • People
  • World
  • Seen

• 'That is the story. Do you think there is any way of making them believe it?' ' Not in the first generation', he said, 'but you might succeed with the second and later generations.'

  

  Plato
  • Believe
  • Story
  • Generations