Socrates Quotes

To be uncertain is to be uncomfortable, but to be certain is to be ridiculous.

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• I'm such a stereotypical female learner in that I love social studies and love literature, and I always struggled with math and science.

  

  Randi Weingarten
  • Love
  • Science
  • Literature

• I think it is a mistake to judge science by Nobel Prizes.

  

  Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
  • Think
  • Science
  • Mistake

• I like to give people more than their money's worth.

  

  R. Kelly
  • People
  • Money
  • Worth

• The ultimate goal of therapy... it's too hard a question. The words come to me like tranquility, like fulfillment, like realizing your potential.

  

  Irvin D. Yalom
  • Words
  • Question
  • Goal

• Philosophical theories or ideas, as points of view, instruments of criticism, may help us to gather up what might otherwise pass unregarded by us.

  

  Walter Pater
  • Up
  • May
  • Help

• I've always wanted to make a record.

  

  Taylor Momsen
  • Always
  • Wanted
  • Make

• I probably follow all sports a little bit. I like hockey quite a bit. I like football. I like college basketball when it gets down to March Madness. I like baseball. I enjoy them all. I watch them all.

  

  Vince Vaughn
  • College
  • Football
  • Sports

• I have thought about the next steps, and you know, they still don't know that I can dance. They don't know it, and it's frustrating me because I feel that it's an edge that I have, and I'm not talking about I took this hip hop class, I'm talking about this is how people actually know me.

  

  Naima Adedapo
  • People
  • Dance
  • Thought

• Declare Church and State forever separate and distinct, but each free within their proper spheres, and that all church property shall bear its own proportion of taxation.

  

  Ulysses S. Grant
  • Free
  • Church
  • Forever

• I'm an actor, paid to act. I don't bring personal problems to the sets. Dad taught me that.

  

  Abhishek Bachchan
  • Dad
  • Actor
  • Problems

• Global terror does not respect national boundaries.

  

  Vikas Swarup
  • Respect
  • Boundaries
  • Global

• It was my father who - after, at age 15, I had attempted unsuccessfully to drive the family car using a 'borrowed' key and knocked down a wall of the garage - convinced me over the telephone not to run away from home and who then came home from work not to punish me but rather to console and comfort me.

  

  H. Robert Horvitz
  • Work
  • Family
  • Home

• I was a crazy Pee-wee Herman fan when I was in my early teens. Before he had the kids' TV show, he had a nightclub show in L.A., and I had gotten a VHS copy of it. It was a kids' show, but onstage in a bar, so it's sort of poking fun at the kids' show. And I was obsessed with that, and then 'Pee-wee's Big Adventure.'

  

  Dallas Roberts
  • Kids
  • Fun
  • Crazy

• I'm in awful shape. I'm trying to get in better shape. My girlfriend, she's in good shape. She gives me health tips sometimes, like, 'Hannibal, you're going to die.' Stuff like that.

  

  Hannibal Buress
  • Trying
  • Health
  • Girlfriend

• I always feel like I want to do my career my own way. I never follow anybody's path, what they've done.

  

  Famke Janssen
  • Done
  • Want
  • Career

• "I think you have to be ready to quit within yourself. If you're not, it doesn't matter what rehab you go to."

  

  Leif Garrett
  • Yourself
  • Quit
  • rahab

• My friends call me 'Dolittle One' [a reference to her physical stature and affinity for animals].

  

  Gloria Estefan Miami Sound Machine
  • Friends
  • Animal
  • Affinity

• Beauty comes from within, not from what you wear.

  

  Adele
  • Beauty
  • Wear

• I always warn aspiring reporters to observe three basic rules: 1. Never trust an editor. 2. Never trust an editor. 3. Never trust an editor.

  

  Edna Buchanan
  • Trust
  • Rules
  • Editor

• I dont really take anything from home except some U.S. magazines and books and definitely some U.S. music. There are just certain songs that remind me of home.

  

  AJ McLean
  • Music
  • Home
  • Book

• I think we may have started this conversation off on the wrong foot," Robert said finally. In fact, if the conversation had been animate, the merciful thing to do would have been to take it out behind the barn and shoot it.

  

  Courtney Milan
  • Wrong
  • Conversation
  • Started

• They'll tell you failure is not an option. That is ridiculous, failure is always an option. Failure is the most readily available option at all times. But it's a choice. You can choose to fail or you can choose to succeed.

  

  Chael Sonnen
  • Choices
  • Succeed
  • Failing

• To be uncertain is to be uncomfortable, but to be certain is to be ridiculous.

  

  Socrates
  • Certain
  • Ridiculous
  • Uncomfortable