Plato Quotes

There is a ... matter - much more valuable and divine than natural philosophy . ... On this matter I must speak to you in enigmas.

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• When a man interrupts a woman in mid-sentence, it reveals much about him. First, it shows he hasn't been listening to what she is saying, and secondly, it indicates that he doesn't want to listen to what she will say. Her views are not important.

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
  • Important
  • She
  • Man

• A lot of people don't remember anything since 'Ice Ice Baby,' but I've got 3 records out since then and they're all successes - but not commercially.

  

  Vanilla Ice
  • People
  • Remember
  • Baby

• Once I looked into a mirror at my face I felt like it was completely convincing. I was Salieri.

  

  F. Murray Abraham
  • Mirror
  • Face
  • Once

• If I have a 100 percent batting average, you should fire me, because it means we haven't tried anything really noble.

  

  Larry Brilliant
  • You
  • Me
  • Fire

• Everyone knows what a curve is, until he has studied enough mathematics to become confused through the countless number of possible exceptions.

  

  Felix Klein
  • Confused
  • Mathematics

• I feel like you are doing better for the world if you're honoring you because everything is getting the authentic you.

  

  Taylour Paige
  • World
  • Better
  • Doing

• I'm the Ali of today. I'm the Marvin Gaye of today. I'm the Bob Marley of today. I'm the Martin Luther King, or all the other greats that have come before us. And a lot of people are starting to realise that now.

  

  R. Kelly
  • People
  • Today
  • King

• In the car on my way to the studio, I was listening to 'Where Are U Now' with Justin Bieber and Jack U, so I was like, 'Wow, this is such a banger.' I loved the thought of having a ballad at the beginning and then just a massive drop.

  

  Zara Larsson
  • Beginning
  • Car
  • Listening

• Gay activists claim that because I don't subscribe to their political agenda, I am a homophobe, meaning I have a mental disorder - because that is what phobias are.

  

  Laura Schlessinger
  • Political
  • Gay
  • Agenda

• For too long, Japan has been dragging its feet as it ignores the steps the U.S. has made to ensure a safe beef supply and shows a disregard for our prior trade pacts.

  

  Randy Neugebauer
  • Long
  • Feet
  • Safe

• When people get rich, they cut themselves off from the context that has earned them these riches - the context of the common men. They forget they are part of society.

  

  N. R. Narayana Murthy
  • People
  • Men
  • Society

• I've said that playing the blues is like having to be black twice. Stevie Ray Vaughan missed on both counts, but I never noticed.

  

  B. B. King
  • Music
  • Black
  • Said

• Always it gave me a pang that my children had no lawful claim to a name.

  

  Harriet Ann Jacobs
  • Children
  • Mom
  • Name

• I'm pretty obsessed with Stevie Nicks from her style to her voice. I like watching her on YouTube and her old performances, the way she moves and everything.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • She
  • Pretty
  • Style

• Even when I was a kid, I had this insane head of flaming hair. It looked like a wig.

  

  Kate Mara
  • Hair
  • Head
  • Wig

• You do a show to be a hit and hopefully run a couple of years.

  

  Harold Prince
  • You
  • Couple
  • Years

• If a writer doesn't do anything but give a new word to his language and, from there, maybe to other languages, I think that writer redefines the world.

  

  Ilan Stavans
  • World
  • Think
  • Language

• I had this revelation, you are a lot better at the between-song stuff than you are at the song stuff. That was devastating. And I usually find devastating things to be pretty valuable.

  

  J. Tillman
  • Pretty
  • Song
  • Better

• I've been interested in autism since I've known about it, which is more or less since I've been writing.

  

  William Gibson
  • Writing
  • Known
  • Autism

• As the sun eclipses the stars by its brilliancy, so the man of knowledge will eclipse the fame of others in assemblies of the people if he proposes algebraic problems, and still more if he solves them.

  

  Brahmagupta
  • People
  • Fame
  • Eclipse

• My courage and my thought be so firmly founded upon the firm stone of Jesus Christ, that for no pain it may not be changed, your words be not wind, your promises be but rain, and your menaces be as rivers that pass, and how will that all these things hurtle at the fundament of my courage, yet for that it shall not move.

  

  Agatha of Sicily
  • Courage
  • Jesus Christ
  • Founded

• Religion without philosophy is sentiment, or sometimes fanaticism, while philosophy without religion is mental speculation.

  

  A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
  • Sometimes
  • Philosophy
  • Speculation

• Cram them full of non-combustible data, chock them so damned full of 'facts' they feel stuffed, but absolutely 'brilliant' with information. Then they’ll feel they’re thinking, they’ll get a sense of motion without moving. And they’ll be happy, because facts of that sort don’t change. Don’t give them any slippery stuff like philosophy or sociology to tie things up with. That way lies melancholy.

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • Philosophy
  • Lying
  • Brilliant

• There is a ... matter - much more valuable and divine than natural philosophy . ... On this matter I must speak to you in enigmas.

  

  Plato
  • Philosophy
  • Valuable
  • Enigmas