Plato Quotes

He seemeth to be most ignorant that trusteth most to his wit.

Plato

Quotes to Explore

In this present culture, we need to find the means to work and live together with less aggression if we are to resolve the serious problems that afflict and impede us.

Meg Wheatley
- Work
- Live
- Together
Putting two songs together, I've always loved that trick when it works.

Paul McCartney Paul McCartney and Wings
- Together
- Song
- Two
Looking at female candidates today, other women are the hardest on them, especially older women who were brought up in a different culture.

Eleanor Clift
- Up
- Different
- Women
Among free men there can be no successful appeal from the ballot to the bullet.

Abraham Lincoln
- Bullet
- Appeal
- Free Men
This self now as I leant over the gate looking down over fields rolling in waves of colour beneath me made no answer. He threw up no opposition. He attempted no phrase. His fist did not form. I waited. I listened. Nothing came, nothing. I cried then with a sudden conviction of complete desertion. Now there is nothing. No fin breaks the waste of this immeasurable sea. Life has destroyed me. No echo comes when I speak, no varied words. This is more truly death than the death of friends, than the death of youth.

Virginia Woolf
- Speak
- Break
- Youth
There should be perfect freedom, legal and social, to do the action and stand the consequences. It would be a great misunderstanding of this doctrine to suppose that it is one of selfish indifference, which pretends that human beings have no business with each other's conduct in life, and that they should not concern themselves about the well-doing or well-being of one another, unless their own interest is involved.

John Stuart Mill