Socrates Quotes

Young people nowadays love luxury; they have bad manners and contempt for authority. They show disrespect for old people... contradict their parents, talk constantly in front of company, gobble their food and tyrannize their teachers.

Socrates

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Let us come to the philosophers, whose authority is of greater weight, and their judgment more to be relied on, because they are believed to have paid attention, not to matters of fiction, but to the investigation of the truth.

Lactantius
Death is the sanction of everything the story-teller can tell. He has borrowed his authority from death.

Walter Benjamin
People say, 'Oh, politics is so polarized today,' and I'm thinking... '1861, that was polarized.'

P. J. O'Rourke
- People
- Thinking
- Today
I used to always run off at the mouth and talk about people. I just didn't know that it would make a living for me.

D. L. Hughley
- People
- Know
- Me
Israeli teachers are not required to hold an academic degree, and their salaries are the lowest in the Western world.

Yair Lapid
- World
- Teachers
- Degree
People have the problem of denial. This is one of the things I learned in Lebanon. Everybody who left Beirut when the war started, including my parents, said, 'Oh, its temporary.' It lasted 17 years! People tend to underestimate the gravity of these situations. That's how they work.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb
- People
- Work
- War