Plato Quotes

The fear of death is indeed the pretence of wisdom, and not real wisdom, being the appearance of knowing the unknown.

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• Gossip is when you hear something you like about someone you don't.

  

  Earl Wilson
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• I absolutely welcome a full investigation into the for-profit schools because I think a majority of them are predatory.

  

  Tammy Duckworth
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• Creating things sometimes is difficult.

  

  Warren Littlefield
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• If a topic hits me, I'll start going on it. But you can't force it.

  

  Wanda Sykes
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• You get caught up in hitting home runs and seeing how far you can hit them, and your swing changes.

  

  Vernon Wells
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• If I win the gold medal, I will be set for the rest of my life. The medal itself doesn't give you anything, but it makes you a marketable item. You take it and see what you can do.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
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• I developed this - I don't know, like a burning love, almost, inside of me that I just wanted to get up, and I just wanted to skate every single day and get better.

  

  J. R. Celski
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• People ask what are my intentions with my films - my aims. It is a difficult and dangerous question, and I usually give an evasive answer: I try to tell the truth about the human condition, the truth as I see it. This answer seems to satisfy everyone, but it is not quite correct.

  

  Ingmar Bergman
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• Very often there's this misapprehension about actors being people that need to display themselves, to reveal themselves in public.

  

  Daniel Day-Lewis
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• When I got to Florida, I was a British kid, but I was also an Indian kid: a brown kid with an English accent. Talk about being an outsider. And that's become the theme of a lot of the stuff I write about.

  

  Aasif Mandvi
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  • Kid
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• One of my big fears is people saying my songs are all starting to sound the same.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • People
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• The tensions between authority and the people need to be heard, especially when they are suffering and they can't eat.

  

  Ralph Fiennes
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  • Suffering
  • Authority

• I've lived in the Hamptons since 1978, when I first bought my store Barefoot Contessa.

  

  Ina Garten
  • First
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• I contend, most seriously, that there is a real need for a good, thick, complete-as-possible dictionary of 'What People Used to Call Things.'

  

  Gary Jennings
  • People
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• America is a meritocracy.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
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• The value of a dollar is social, as it is created by society.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
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• And it hurts as a player, that you put a lot of hard work in during the week, and at the end of the week, Sunday, when you get on the field, that's when they acknowledge about the hard work that you put in throughout the week. That's actually a disappointment.

  

  Randy Moss
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• I was always fascinated by politics, and I was exposed to it quite a lot.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • Always
  • Politics
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• I see if I can make human beings look like reptiles.

  

  Ralph Steadman
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  • See

• I try to have a lot of influences, which is to say not to have one specific influence too strongly; that can end up badly.

  

  Kevin Young
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• Men have made an idol of luck as an excuse for their own thoughtlessness. Luck seldom measures swords with wisdom. Most things in life quick wit and sharp vision can set right.

  

  Democritus
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  • Men
  • Wisdom

• I'd like to imagine I won't end up in hell, but I think I've done too much acid and listened to too much death metal to sit on a cloud next to God with angels floating above my head.

  

  Dave Grohl Nirvana
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• You can't be afraid to put out a fire if you're a fireman. You can't be afraid to be a police officer and carry a gun if you're afraid to get up and go out there. So you've got to put that fear to the side and go out in faith to overcome that.

  

  Duane Chapman
  • Up
  • Fear
  • Faith

• The fear of death is indeed the pretence of wisdom, and not real wisdom, being the appearance of knowing the unknown.

  

  Plato
  • Death
  • Fear
  • Wisdom