Socrates Quotes

Obscurity is dispelled by augmenting the light of discernment, not by attacking the darkness.

Socrates

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• I like to do everything you can possibly do before you go into rehearsal, because once we are in rehearsal or on the stage there will be a problem I didn't anticipate. It's really good to think we got it all nailed - of course you've never got it all nailed.

  

  Harold Prince
  • Good
  • Think
  • Problem

• I can't pretend to be a teenager, but I feel like I never really stopped being a teenager.

  

  Gayle Forman
  • Like
  • Never
  • Feel

• We develop our propensity to forgive or not to forgive by what we see illustrated at the early ages of our development.

  

  T. D. Jakes
  • Development
  • Forgive
  • Early

• My style is schizophrenic! One minute I'll be wearing bright girly dresses, and the next I'll be swinging towards more structured masculine things.

  

  Tamsin Egerton
  • Style
  • Dresses
  • Girly

• Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Powerful
  • Imagination
  • Exercise

• I still write in long hand. I type like a chimpanzee.

  

  Pat Conroy
  • Long
  • Hand
  • Like

• You can never fully put your finger on the reason why you're suddenly, inexplicably compelled to explore one life as opposed to another.

  

  Daniel Day-Lewis
  • Life
  • Why
  • You

• I'm nearsighted in my right eye, have glaucoma in my left, and the nerves in my hands are on Medicare. Basically, I'm on the wrong end of a short sale.

  

  Gary McCord
  • Eye
  • End
  • Short

• As society diversifies, the number of people who read literature is decreasing. It will be difficult for readers to digest my ideas through literature.

  

  Cao Yu
  • People
  • Society
  • Ideas

• At Nike, designers both created and communicated the brand, transforming a company that made shoes into a purveyor of athletic heroism.

  

  Tahl Raz
  • Shoes
  • Company
  • Brand

• I was a confident, outgoing little boy. If you're an only child, you're living in a very linguistically adult world, and you've got to keep up. So I did. Maybe I was slightly annoying.

  

  Jack Davenport
  • Up
  • World
  • Boy

• Death is the beginning of something.

  

  Edith Piaf
  • Death
  • Beginning
  • Something

• I've always been fascinated by young women who come to New York. The characters in 'Lipstick Jungle' were once young women who came to New York and we see their early experiences through flashbacks.

  

  Candace Bushnell
  • Women
  • New York
  • Lipstick

• I think about 'The Simpsons,' which has been going on for 25 years. Homer is still in his late 30's. Lisa is 8, Bart is 10. Their stories are told. Yet the series keeps going on and on like a zombie that won't lie down and die. That feels forced and unnatural. The characters never change, grow, age.

  

  Ted Naifeh
  • Age
  • Change
  • Die

• United States and our allied partners need to wake up. ISIS is at war with us and civilization.

  

  Jack Keane
  • Up
  • War
  • Civilization

• People would pay money to work at CNN.

  

  Larry King
  • People
  • Work
  • Money

• No woman ever falls in love with a man unless she has a better opinion of him than he deserves.

  

  E. W. Howe
  • Love
  • Man
  • Opinion

• Sometimes I feel like a man; sometimes I feel like a child.

  

  Tali Lennox
  • Man
  • Sometimes
  • Child

• I know a lot of people who read and think: "George [Saunders] is so much fun." There's no denying you're fun to read, but as a writer I think of [George Saunders] as, in fact, not a fun and freewheeling type but really an obsessive control artist.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Fun

• The economics establishment (universities, regulators, central bankers, government officials, various organisations staffed with economists) lost its legitimacy with the failure of the system. It is irresponsible and foolish to put our trust in the ability of such experts to get us out of this mess. Instead, find the smart people whose hands are clean.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • People
  • Lost
  • Trust

• A fool despises good counsel, but a wise man takes it to heart.

  

  Confucius
  • Heart
  • Counsel
  • Despises

• There is sweet music here that softer falls Than petals from blown roses on the grass, Or night-dews on still waters between walls Of shadowy granite, in a gleaming pass; Music that gentlier on the spirit lies, Than tir'd eyelids upon tir'd eyes; Music that brings sweet sleep down from the blissful skies. Here are cool mosses deep, And thro' the moss the ivies creep, And in the stream the long-leaved flowers weep, And from the craggy ledge the poppy hangs in sleep.

  

  Alfred Lord Tennyson
  • Music
  • Sleep
  • Spirit

• I die without seeing dawn's light shining on my country... You, who will see it, welcome it for me...don't forget those who fell during the nighttime.

  

  Jose Rizal
  • Country
  • Light
  • Forget

• Obscurity is dispelled by augmenting the light of discernment, not by attacking the darkness.

  

  Socrates
  • Light
  • Darkness
  • Obscurity