Plato Quotes

That man is wisest who, like Socrates, realizes that his wisdom is worthless.

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• Good listeners, like precious gems, are to be treasured.

  

  Walter Anderson
  • Good
  • Like
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• As we get more transparent with data sets about infrastructure and systems management, I have a feeling we'll see big changes in how we think about complexity and our relationship to our actions.

  

  Aaron Koblin
  • Feeling
  • Relationship
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• People have always thought of me as being something, but I'm just a human being like everyone else.

  

  Carl Lewis
  • People
  • Me
  • Thought

• All the evidence shows very clearly that if you are a member of a trade union you are likely to get better pay, more equal pay, better health and safety, more chance to get training, more chance to have conditions of work that help if you have caring responsibilities... the list goes on!

  

  Frances O'Grady
  • Work
  • Help
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• True penitence condemns to silence. What a man is ready to recall he would be willing to repeat.

  

  F. H. Bradley
  • True
  • Man
  • Silence

• The first time I thought I should be an actor was in school. I thought, 'At least this is something for which I won't have to study.' But I've realised that an actor needs to be constantly unsure about what he's doing and about what's going on around him. The moment you think you've nailed it, you're dead.

  

  Ranbir Kapoor
  • Time
  • School
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• Is it not careless to become too local when there are four hundred billion stars in our galaxy alone.

  

  A. R. Ammons
  • Alone
  • Stars
  • Galaxy

• The basic law of capitalism is you or I, not both you and I.

  

  Karl Liebknecht
  • You
  • Law
  • Capitalism

• I know everyone in the Philippines is happy.

  

  Manny Pacquiao
  • Happy
  • Know
  • Everyone

• Leadership appears to be the art of getting others to want to do something you are convinced should be done.

  

  Vance Packard
  • Done
  • Art
  • Want

• My mother went to a school called 'The Club of the Three Wise Monkeys'. And my grandmother, my father's mother, had a gold charm for her made with the speak no, see no, hear no evil monkeys. And I was fascinated by that charm. I'd sit in my mother's lap and play with it all the time.

  

  Mackenzie Phillips
  • Time
  • School
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• Love hurts the most when you really love. Sometimes you think you're in love, and then you find out that you're not because you're not really hurting. But when it's real love, then it's gonna hurt. It's supposed to hurt because it's real.

  

  Baby Face Willette
  • Real
  • Love
  • Hurt

• I don't need a piece of paper to suggest that I can commit myself.

  

  Francesca Annis
  • Myself
  • Need
  • Paper

• I can never find the right bras.

  

  Kate Upton
  • Never
  • Find
  • I Can

• I always got nervous the nights we played in the World Series. First pitch, I was nervous. Then after that, forget it; I'd start playing.

  

  Yogi Berra
  • World
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• Common sense is compelled to make its way without the enthusiasm of anyone.

  

  E. W. Howe
  • Enthusiasm
  • Common Sense

• If you look at history, at the first time hip-hop was invented, there was a Latino right there. How they got erased, I don't know how that all came about.

  

  Fat Joe
  • Time
  • History
  • Look

• I grew up with music very much in my life. I achieved success by combining my training as an accountant with my family upbringing and love of music.

  

  Zarin Mehta
  • Life
  • Music
  • Family

• A very common symptom in maniacal conditions is erotic excitement. This varies from mere coquetry, a somewhat extended application of the command "love one another", an undue attention to the opposite sex, and so forth, up to the extreme of salacity, when the mind is wholly occupied by the urgent sexual appetite, and all restraint is abandoned.

  

  Daniel Hack Tuke
  • Mind
  • Attention
  • Common

• We don't need men with new ideas as much as we need men who will put energy behind the old ideas.

  

  William Feather
  • Men
  • Energy
  • Ideas

• I used to think I was going to die wise, and now, the one wisdom I have is I know very little.

  

  Mary Steenburgen
  • Die
  • Wisdom
  • Wise

• We're fighting to be ourselves in a world that's trying to make us like everyone else.

  

  Bebe Rexha
  • World
  • Trying
  • Fighting

• We're entertainers, not just singers!

  

  David Ruffin The Temptations

• That man is wisest who, like Socrates, realizes that his wisdom is worthless.

  

  Plato
  • Wisdom
  • Socrates
  • Wisest