Socrates Quotes
To Believe without evidence and demonstration is an act of ignorance and folly.
Socrates
Quotes to Explore
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Commas in The New Yorker fall with the precision of knives in a circus act, outlining the victim.
E. B. White
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When you realize that the uncut 'Porgy and Bess' started me off, that I'd have the opportunity to do a ton of 'Stoppard,' 'Hairspray,' that I'm able to do 'Il Trittico' at the Met – how do I top that?
Jack O'Brien
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Growing up, me and my brother, we were kind of exact opposites. We were completely yin and yang. He was more rough and tumble, and I just wanted to play with my girlfriends.
Candis Cayne
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Date syrup is a natural sweetener that has wonderful richness and treacly depth; I drizzle it over semolina porridge.
Yotam Ottolenghi
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Back home, almost everything I did, I did in Hebrew. I went to drama school in Hebrew, my whole career was in Hebrew, and to switch languages was something that was fascinating and more complicated than I expected it to be, even though I've been speaking English since I could speak.
Yael Grobglas
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Notting Hill is a very different carnival from anywhere else. This is an international city, so it represents everybody. You walk around every corner here, you'll hear something new. It's awesome.
Leighton Paul Walsh
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As long as I could sing my songs, I wasn't as angry about what had happened, about being shoved back for this or shoved back for the other.
James Victor Scott
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When you start digging into things like character, though, the notion that people have high character or low character is very strong. What's crazy is that my thinking is not a new insight. The very first large-scale study of character, still one of the largest ever, was done in the early 1900s by Hugh Hartshorne, an ordained minister and a scientist.
L. Todd Rose
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The making of the far-famed New York Central Park was opposed by even good men, with misguided pluck, perseverance, and ingenuity, but straight right won its way, and now that park is appreciated. So we confidently believe it will be with our great national parks and forest reservations.
John Muir
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I try to do things in one take, but doubling rhythm parts is always difficult, especially if you want things to cut the way I want them to cut.
Darrell Lance Abbott
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To Believe without evidence and demonstration is an act of ignorance and folly.
Socrates