Socrates Quotes

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

Socrates

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• Obscurity
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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

• Every single one of the guys that I've written songs about has been tracked down on MySpace by my fans.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Single
  • Fans
  • Down

• 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

• History turns me on. I was terrible at it at in school, but as I get older, I get more and more into it.

  

  Andrew Lincoln
  • School
  • History

• I've always said that I didn't want to be given a job because I was a female, I wanted it because I was the most well-qualified person for the job. And making certain that companies are going to move forward in that vein, that is what women want.

  

  Marsha Blackburn
  • Women
  • Job

• You can't appeal to us through our wombs, we're pro-life. The fetus beat us. We grew up with sonograms. We know life when we see it.

  

  Kellyanne Conway
  • Life
  • Up

• Oh, wonderful. I killed his father. He hates me. He knows how to make bombs. Come on, Wedge, how does this story end?

  

  Aaron Allston
  • Father
  • Hate
  • Doe

• They, and we, are the legacies of an unbroken chain of proud men and women who served their country with honor, who waged war so that we might know peace, who braved hardship so that we might know opportunity, who paid the ultimate price so that we might know freedom.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Men
  • Women
  • Country

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

  

  Socrates
  • Light
  • Darkness
  • Obscurity