Plato Quotes

It is better to be wise, and not to seem so, than to seem wise, and not be so; yet men, for the most part, desire the contrary.

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• People think because I've got some success, I've made it, but in my eyes it's like, 'How long has Jay Z been in the business? How many albums has he got?' Not that I'm trying to be Jay Z, but I am trying to be around for a long time.

  

  J. Cole
  • People
  • Time
  • Long

• I am not a Ph.D. in economics or a doctorate in literature that I can afford to take my singing lightly. Even if I sing a jingle, I take it as seriously as oxygen.

  

  Kailash Kher
  • Seriously
  • Jingle

• I've learned about ice water in the morning - when you wake up tired, or you're jet lagged and you've been flying and your skin is dry, or you have puffy eyes - the ice water really helps cool the face down and helps circulation.

  

  Barbara Fialho
  • Up
  • Eyes
  • Water

• Personally I had the opportunity to go on several ride alongs with the LA County Sheriff's Department with some amazing detectives, who were invaluable to me.

  

  Nancy McKeon
  • Opportunity
  • Amazing
  • Ride

• It's just not my nature to go around idolizing people.

  

  Magnus Carlsen
  • People
  • Nature
  • Just

• I think that was the case here. We just wanted it to be good for everybody.

  

  Adam Arkin
  • Good
  • Think
  • Here

• And when you look at the Turtle's movie there is something there, definitely something there.

  

  Eddie Campbell
  • Movie
  • You
  • Look

• I was always in love with Judy Garland, and when I was growing up, I fell in love with Leonardo DiCaprio, of course.

  

  Tammy Blanchard
  • Up
  • Love
  • Growing

• When I was on stage with the Spice Girls, I thought people were there to see the other four and not me.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • People
  • Me
  • Thought

• I think a lot of women, especially ones that want to achieve career goals, tend to worry. I don't want anyone to worry their life away - time goes by so fast, and worry is really wasted time and energy.

  

  Dana Perino
  • Life
  • Time
  • Women

• Before I got married, I dated the gamut.

  

  Gabrielle Union
  • Married
  • Before
  • Got

• So, I understand when they make a mistake and everyone at home is throwing their shoe at the television set.

  

  Vanna White
  • Home
  • Mistake
  • Television

• There is always something funny going on between scenes with Adam Sandler. He's always cracking jokes and yelling at people for no reason. It's pretty funny. He'll joke around during scenes, too. When he guest-starred on 'Jessie,' there was nothing in the script that he said first take.

  

  Cameron Boyce
  • People
  • Pretty
  • Funny

• I have a couture body.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Body

• I've been a kind of a wildcatter. I've been able to say anything I wanted.

  

  Jack Kemp
  • Kind
  • Say
  • Anything

• ISIS is on the offense, with the ability to attack at will, anyplace, anytime.

  

  Jack Keane
  • Ability
  • Will
  • Attack

• I think 'method acting' is a widely abused term.

  

  Randeep Hooda
  • Think
  • Acting
  • Method

• Being a pop-leaning, female artist, you'd think that I'd have my record company breathing down my neck and trying to control everything I'm doing. Actually, they've just kind of let me take the wheel.

  

  Halsey
  • Trying
  • Control
  • Artist

• The ultimate end...is not knowledge, but action. To be half right on time may be more important than to obtain the whole truth too late.

  

  Aristotle
  • Time
  • Truth
  • Knowledge

• It is important to remember that the emperor of Rome, who also lived in the city, was understood by many people throughout the empire to be the son of God—that is, the son of the divinized Caesar who preceded him.

  

  Bart Ehrman
  • Remember
  • Son Of God
  • Roman Emperor

• I think I was put on earth to sing and play music.

  

  Neil Sedaka
  • Music
  • Earth

• In the Catholic Church, especially, they go into chancery, make a clean confession, give up all, and think to start again. Thus men will lie on their backs, talking about the fall of man, and never make an effort to get up.

  

  Henry David Thoreau
  • Up
  • Men
  • Fall

• The Forgotten Man is delving away in patient industry, supporting his family, paying his taxes, casting his vote, supporting the church and the school, reading his newspaper, and cheering for the politician of his admiration, but he is the only one for whom there is no provision in the great scramble and the big divide. Such is the Forgotten Man. He works, he votes, generally he prays — but he always pays — yes, above all, he pays.

  

  William Graham Sumner
  • Life
  • Men
  • Family

• It is better to be wise, and not to seem so, than to seem wise, and not be so; yet men, for the most part, desire the contrary.

  

  Plato
  • Men
  • Desire
  • Wise