Socrates Quotes

I swear it upon Zeus an outstanding runner cannot be the equal of an average wrestler.

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• I can swear like a fishwife.

  

  Frances Bay
  • Like
  • I Can
  • Swear

• It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • People
  • Together
  • True

• The reason I hate publicists is because I think if we got rid of them everything would be on equal footing.

  

  Adam Carolla
  • Think
  • Hate
  • Equal

• My mom was always keen I stayed in school and got good grades, and she was always keen for me to do medicine. I used to go to drama classes when I was younger, and she would always take me. But when I got to an age when I decided it was what I wanted to do, when she accepted it, she had actually been the most supportive person ever.

  

  Iain De Caestecker
  • Good
  • School
  • She

• When I was president of the company, I said, 'Okay, I can do this - piece of cake.' Then when you are the CEO, the responsibilities multiply enormously because you worry about everything.

  

  Indra Nooyi
  • Worry
  • Company
  • Cake

• In the matter of justice, all should be equal in your eyes.

  

  Abu Bakr
  • Eyes
  • Justice
  • Equal

• Size matters in fiction, but so does lack of size. Everything else being equal, fat novels tend to be perceived as serious, very thin ones as more honest, more real. Writers address these age-old expectations by filling their big books with philosophy and cramming their little ones with feeling.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • Real
  • Age
  • Feeling

• We're not going to create a more equal society by not prodding at it, are we?

  

  Laura Wade
  • Society
  • Create
  • Equal

• Just as judges have enormous stake in the appointment of judicial officers in the higher judiciary, the government has an equal stake. Since both of us have stakes in the appointment of members of the higher judiciary, the consultation of both of them is absolutely necessary. The government must have a say.

  

  Kapil Sibal
  • Government
  • Equal
  • Judges

• The simple reality of life is that everyone is wrong on a regular basis. By confronting these inevitable errors, you allow yourself to make corrections before it is too late.

  

  Barry Ritholtz
  • Life
  • Reality
  • Simple

• We must stop posing as victims of the West and behaving negatively towards the West. We must participate with the West on an equal footing in the reconstruction of the world.

  

  Tahar Ben Jelloun
  • World
  • Stop
  • Equal

• While I'm writing, I'm also the first reader, and I want to write a book where I'm excited about what happens next.

  

  Hakan Nesser
  • Writing
  • Book
  • Want

• Guys act strange around me. I swear I don't know why!

  

  Vanessa Hudgens
  • Know
  • Strange
  • Act

• If equal affection cannot be, let the more loving be me.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Me
  • Equal
  • Affection

• In every commercial state, notwithstanding any pretension to equal rights, the exaltation of a few must depress the many.

  

  Adam Ferguson
  • Rights
  • Equal
  • Equal Rights

• I think that Congress' ability to reason is fully equal to that of the judiciary.

  

  Samuel Alito
  • Think
  • Equal
  • Congress

• Unemployment rates tend to rise and fall in roughly equal proportion at all rungs of the ladder, and that happened between 1973 and 1985.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Fall
  • Equal
  • Rise

• There is not the slightest indication that nuclear energy will ever be obtainable. It would mean that the atom would have to be shattered at will.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Energy
  • Nuclear
  • Atom

• You did not come down from the cross when they shouted to you, mocking and reviling you: "Come down from the cross and we will believe that it is you." You did not come down because, again, you did not want to enslave man by a miracle and thirsted for faith that is free, not miraculous...I swear, man is created weaker and baser than you thought him! How, how can he ever accomplish the same things as you? ...Respecting him less, you would have demanded less of him, and that would be closer to love, for his burden would be lighter.

  

  Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • Believe
  • Love
  • Free

• Who was the blundering idiot who said 'fine words butter no parsnips'? Half the parsnips of society are served and rendered palatable with no other sauce.

  

  William Makepeace Thackeray
  • Said
  • Half
  • Fine

• Silence is the neutral Center in which movements take a breath of repose.

  

  Nelly Mazloum
  • Silence
  • Movement
  • Repose

• In all my years of baseball, I have always expected to be traded. I never liked the idea.

  

  Jackie Robinson
  • Years
  • Baseball
  • Idea

• I swear it upon Zeus an outstanding runner cannot be the equal of an average wrestler.

  

  Socrates
  • Equal
  • Swear
  • Runner