Plato Quotes

We will be better and braver if we engage and inquire than if we indulge in the idle fancy that we already know -- or that it is of no use seeking to know what we do not know.

Plato

• Seeking
• Engage
• Indulge

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• Yes, all fundamentalists feel that in a secular society, God has been relegated to the margin, to the periphery and they are all in different ways seeking to drag him out of that peripheral position, back to center stage.

  

  Karen Armstrong
  • God
  • Different
  • Society

• Excessive speed and quantity are, like chattiness and digression, besetting sins of cyber-assisted authorship.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Like
  • Speed
  • Quantity

• Not only am I constantly seeking better performance but also to be a better person, to be respected.

  

  Yani Tseng
  • Better
  • Performance
  • Seeking

• I don't necessarily want to make people stomp and clap. I simply want to engage people.

  

  Patrick deWitt
  • People
  • Want
  • Engage

• If I play, I try to concentrate on producing my best.

  

  Oliver Kahn
  • Play
  • Best
  • Try

• Solitude is creativity's best friend, and solitude is refreshment for our souls.

  

  Naomi Judd
  • Friend
  • Creativity
  • Solitude

• For me, if the words are good on the page, the rest of it comes from spending some time with the script, and not like you're learning lines but absorbing what the script has to offer.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • Time
  • Good
  • Words

• O friend unseen, unborn, unknown, Student of our sweet English tongue, I never indulge in poetics - Unless I am down with rheumatics.

  

  Quintus Ennius
  • English
  • Tongue
  • Indulge

• If you have no critics you'll likely have no success.

  

  Malcolm X
  • Success
  • You
  • Critics

• Prime Minister Sharon, Prime Minister Abbas, I urge you today to end the designs of those who seek destruction, annihilation and occupation, and I urge you to have the will and the courage to begin to realize our dreams of peace, prosperity and coexistence.

  

  Abdullah II of Jordan
  • Today
  • Peace
  • Courage

• It's nice to always make an effort when you get photographed.

  

  Rita Ora
  • Nice
  • Effort

• My favorite driver is always either the bad guy or the underdog.

  

  Bo Jackson
  • Bad
  • Guy

• I love chocolate mousse, that's probably my favorite. I'm a big strawberry shortcake fan as well. I'm not mad at classic vanilla either. I'm not, I'm not sure what the word is. Cake discriminatory? Cakeist?

  

  Kevin McHale
  • Mad
  • Chocolate

• Our world desperately needs real leadership.

  

  Daniel Lubetzky
  • World
  • Real
  • Leadership

• Modernity is disruptive, and I endorse that.

  

  Emmanuel Macron

• But the most important thing is, Enron did not cause the California crisis.

  

  Kenneth Lay
  • Important
  • California

• I like to write pop songs and the stuff I write is fairly poppy, so I thought maybe my lot in life was to write pop songs for people. It never felt right writing songs for other people to sing, though.

  

  Aaron Bruno
  • People
  • Life
  • Writing

• In today's environment, the audience expects to be more directly connected to news providers than it did historically and I think that's a good thing, ... We all felt strongly that letting people know that we are willing to engage in a healthy dialogue about what we do we think will enhance our reputation and give us a competitive advantage.

  

  Andrew Heyward
  • People
  • Good
  • Today

• We have a name for your disease. We call it a hyper-aesthetic one. You have been encouraged to over-indulge yourself in literature; and have inflamed your organs of fancy.

  

  Sarah Waters
  • Literature
  • Disease
  • Aesthetic

• I need to be in touch with the people. You've got to look in their eyes, and you've got to feel what they feel. You've got to engage people. All that we do and believe in is engaging people to touch, to heal, to look at each other's eyes, to feel with each other, to cry with each other, to moan, to groan, to rejoice, to be happy.

  

  Cecil Williams
  • People
  • To Be
  • Engage

• Each time I caught sight of geese swooping in formation across the sky, I wondered how our life below might look from their perspective, and imagined that, were they ever to indulge in such speculation, the high-rises might seem to them like firs massed in a grove.

  

  Teju Cole
  • Perspective
  • Caught
  • Speculation

• Part of me wanted something bloody and really fun.

  

  Nicole Sullivan
  • Fun
  • Want
  • Bloody

• We will be better and braver if we engage and inquire than if we indulge in the idle fancy that we already know -- or that it is of no use seeking to know what we do not know.

  

  Plato
  • Seeking
  • Engage
  • Indulge