Socrates Quotes

The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary.There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance.

Socrates

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• Knowledge
• Evil
• Ignorance

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• I didn't choose to write a military man as much as Vince Haven chose me.

  

  Rachel Gibson
  • Man
  • Me
  • Military

• As biologists, we contemplate with admiration and awe the wondrous array of sophisticated cell interactions and recognitions evolved in the T cell immune system, which must be a model for other similarly complex biological systems of highly differentiated organisms.

  

  Baruj Benacerraf
  • Model
  • Complex
  • Sophisticated

• Give me golf clubs, fresh air and a beautiful partner, and you can keep the clubs and the fresh air.

  

  Jack Benny
  • Beautiful
  • Sports
  • Air

• Poetry is an art, the easiest to dabble in, but the hardest to reach true excellence.

  

  J. G. Stedman
  • Art
  • True
  • Poetry

• I have observed, through many years of living in north Brooklyn, that people, for example an ostensible group of friends, can be dangerous to one another.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • People
  • Friends
  • Brooklyn

• The relationship with time changes when you're captive.

  

  Ingrid Betancourt
  • Time
  • Relationship
  • Changes

• Nice guys finish first. If you don't know that, then you don't know where the finish line is.

  

  Garry Shandling
  • Know
  • Nice
  • Finish

• When people use their hurt and make a triumph in their song, that helps other people.

  

  La'Porsha Renae
  • People
  • Song
  • Hurt

• Those who do not read criticism will rarely merit to be criticised.

  

  Isaac D'Israeli
  • Criticism
  • Will
  • Merit

• To do more of a concert thing, it takes so much preparation. You don't just show up and wing it. You're putting countless hours in the studio, not just to write and produce stuff, but to come up with edits and special things for the show.

  

  Kaskade
  • Up
  • You
  • Special

• I've always been DJing; it's just I'm making more of a push for it, making it more public.

  

  Idris Elba
  • Always
  • More
  • Push

• I've been making a diary of the daft things people have said during London Fashion Week, and it does wear a little bit thin, everyone comparing my name to Edie Sedgwick.

  

  Edie Campbell
  • People
  • Fashion
  • Week

• When I was young, I had this contrarian thing, and my music for a long time was an extension of that. I didn't want to entertain people; I had too much vanity to be an entertainer. I think that some layers of vanity came off.

  

  J. Tillman
  • People
  • Time
  • Music

• Kids will ask us 'How do you become famous?' It's the wrong question. Focus on the craft, not on the fame.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • Kids
  • Question
  • Focus

• A manager's job is simple. For one hundred sixty-two games you try not to screw up all that smart stuff your organization did last December.

  

  Earl Weaver
  • Up
  • Job
  • Simple

• I didn't feel the kind of joy every day playing drums that I thought you were supposed to feel.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • Day
  • Joy
  • Thought

• Very few of the early Italian humanists were really humane.

  

  Irving Babbitt
  • Really
  • Italian
  • Early

• I like to edit; I like to work with other people, and that's something stand-up doesn't really have.

  

  Kyle Dunnigan
  • People
  • Up
  • Work

• This is something I've wanted to do my whole life is play baseball, and I think just the opportunity to put on a big-league uniform every day is just... you know, people dream of it, but not everybody gets to do it. I'm thankful every day I get to do it.

  

  Jacob deGrom
  • People
  • Life
  • Dream

• For me, one of the toughest things about Valentine's Day is that it gets geared up as the day to profess your love. See, T-E-S-T - that's a bad word that doesn't go with L-O-V-E.

  

  Matthew McConaughey
  • Up
  • Bad

• When happiness is actually in possession, the thought of evil can no more acquire the feeling of reality than the thought of good can gain reality when melancholy rules. To the man actively happy, from whatever cause, evil simply cannot then and there be believed in.

  

  William James
  • Men
  • Reality
  • Evil

• We're reminded yet again: we are stronger, we are smarter, we have more fun when we include each other - when we include as many perspectives as possible.

  

  Leslie Odom, Jr.
  • Fun

• The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary.There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance.

  

  Socrates
  • Work
  • Success
  • Knowledge