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
  • You
  • Someone
  • Gossip

• Creating things sometimes is difficult.

  

  Warren Littlefield
  • Sometimes
  • Things
  • Difficult

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

  

  Wanda Sykes
  • You
  • Me
  • Start

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

  

  Vernon Wells
  • Up
  • Home
  • Changes

• 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
  • Life
  • Rest
  • Win

• 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
  • Up
  • Love
  • Single

• 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
  • People
  • Truth
  • Question

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

  

  Daniel Day-Lewis
  • People
  • Need
  • Very

• 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
  • English
  • Kid
  • Talk

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

  

  Taylor Swift
  • People
  • Saying
  • Starting

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

  

  Ralph Fiennes
  • People
  • Suffering
  • Authority

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

  

  Ina Garten
  • First
  • Lived
  • Barefoot

• 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
  • Good
  • Real

• America is a meritocracy.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • America

• The value of a dollar is social, as it is created by society.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Society
  • Value
  • Social

• 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
  • Work
  • Player
  • End

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

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • Always
  • Politics
  • Exposed

• I see if I can make human beings look like reptiles.

  

  Ralph Steadman
  • Human
  • Look
  • See

• I'm not a politician, but ISIS is a problem, and this matter should be solved very quickly. This will affect existing production, it will affect investment, it will affect the behaviour of people. It will affect the area tremendously.

  

  Abdallah Salem el-Badri
  • People
  • Problem
  • Investment

• I've fallen back on this periodically, although I must say that getting out of the grocery business ranked right up there with getting out of the army as one of the happier experiences of my life.

  

  David Eddings
  • Life
  • Up
  • Business

• Seamless, careful, by-the-book performance provides no evidence of what the spider's thinking about the fly enmeshed in its web.

  

  John Edgar Wideman
  • Thinking
  • Book
  • Fly

• When anybody and everybody registers to vote, they do so under the penalty of perjury. They're signing a contract that they are 18 years of age or older and they're citizens of the United States.

  

  Audie Cornish
  • Age
  • Vote
  • Citizens

• I loved magic, and so I would practice my magic tricks in front of a mirror for hours and hours and hours because I was told that you must practice, you must practice and never present a trick before it's ready.

  

  Steve Martin
  • Practice
  • Magic
  • Hours

• 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