Socrates Quotes
Most people, including ourselves, live in a world of relative ignorance. We are even comfortable with that ignorance, because it is all we know. When we first start facing truth, the process may be frightening, and many people run back to their old lives. But if you continue to seek truth, you will eventually be able to handle it better. In fact, you want more! It's true that many people around you now may think you are weird or even a danger to society, but you don't care. Once you've tasted the truth, you won't ever want to go back to being ignorant.
Quotes to Explore
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A great man is different from an eminent one in that he is ready to be the servant of the society.
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An attack on values is inevitably seen as an act of subversion.
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I used to believe I was going to live forever. And then you suddenly become aware that you're not.
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I don't think in words; I think in pictures, in images.
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I've been just eating very healthy, all organic, no sugar, white flour, nothing artificial. I'm being so incredibly strict... not a lot of meat!
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Every burn on my body has had its own different personality. And all of them needed different things.
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'The Omen,' 'The Exorcist,' those movies for me are the quintessential horror movies that still scare me as an adult.
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Every concert I've finished with the knowledge I've played a fistful of wrong notes.
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Stand by your man. Give him two arms to cling to and something warm to come to.
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We read Robert Browning's poetry. Here we needed no guidance from the professor: the poems themselves were enough.
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I am always worried that over-planning and outlining will kill the magic of writing; most of the world I created in 'California' occurred via good old sexy sentence-making.
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My mum's really short so she always wears really tall heels, and I used to steal them and now it's just a part of my everyday life.
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Few things are more important to our country's future than recruiting and keeping great teachers in our schools.
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I see many black males grasping for some thread of hope. There are so many destructive practices, glimpses into a psychic abyss. That must be very frightening.
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All Hollywood corrupts; and absolute Hollywood corrupts absolutely.
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You reach a point in your career when the weeks turn into a month or more of the phone not ringing.
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Madonna is a creation, so perhaps we should give her and the factory that created her a little credit, but I think that she should quietly disappear now. Poor Madge seems unable to decide whether she wants to look like Marilyn Monroe or Marlene Dietrich.
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I'm not more or less conscious than any other rapper out there.
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Nationalization would likely mean wiping out the big banks' managements and shareholders. It's because that reckoning has mostly been avoided so far that those bankers may be the Americans in the greatest denial of all.
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Knowledge is that possession that no misfortune can destroy, no authority can revoke, and no enemy can control. This makes knowledge the greatest of all freedoms.
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In a show or a movie, one must work with many people. Many women just don't have the time for it.
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All too willingly man sees himself as the centre of the universe, as something not belonging to the rest of nature but standing apart as a different and higher being. Many people cling to this error and remain deaf to the wisest command ever given by a sage, the famous 'Know thyself' inscribed in the temple of Delphi.
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Democracy is the common pursuit of mankind, and all countries must earnestly protect the democratic rights of the people.
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Most people, including ourselves, live in a world of relative ignorance. We are even comfortable with that ignorance, because it is all we know. When we first start facing truth, the process may be frightening, and many people run back to their old lives. But if you continue to seek truth, you will eventually be able to handle it better. In fact, you want more! It's true that many people around you now may think you are weird or even a danger to society, but you don't care. Once you've tasted the truth, you won't ever want to go back to being ignorant.
