Plato Quotes

I really do not know, Socrates, how to express what I mean. For somehow or other our arguments, on whatever ground we rest them, seem to turn round and walk away from us.

Plato

Quotes to Explore

Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin.

Barbara Kingsolver
- Truth
- Memory
- Complicated
In North Germany, a troublesome ghost is bagged, and the bag emptied in some lone spot or in the garden of a neighbour against whom a grudge is entertained.

Sabine Baring-Gould
- Garden
- Germany
- Bag
Wild fish are under threat of extinction because they're hunted to feed us. Yet land animals that we farm are under no threat of extinction. Shifting from hunting fish to farming fish - where the farmers have the incentive to keep their stocks healthy - could do a tremendous amount of good for wild fish.

Ramez Naam
- Good
- Hunting
- Fish
Anyone can be a Superman, but nobody can be Jackie Chan.

Jackie Chan
- Nobody
- Superman
- Anyone
Privatization of the state-owned economy is not yet on the agenda. We cannot do it immediately; my colleagues would not agree to it. But we must put all forms of ownership on an equal footing immediately and let different types of ownership compete with the state firms.

Vaclav Klaus
- Different
- Economy
- Equal
I stay true because whatever the project is, I'm still looking for inside of that character. It's the thing that connects him to me and to everybody else. So, the search is the same. It's to unveil the truth, and that's how I stay true, because my purpose isn't altered.

Forest Whitaker
- Character
- Truth
- True