Socrates Quotes

I desire only to know the truth, and to live as well as I can...And, to the utmost of my power, I exhort all other men to do the same...I exhort you also to take part in the great combat, which is the combat of life, and greater than every other earthly conflict.

Socrates

• Life
• Truth
• Know
• Conflict
• Combat

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• Was music my talent really? No, I don't think I was particularly talented.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • Music
  • Think
  • Talent

• We have shown that it is possible to create a radioactivity characterized by the emission of positive or negative electrons in boron and magnesium by bombardment with alpha rays.

  

  Irene Joliot-Curie
  • Positive
  • Possible
  • Negative

• I just felt like I had to create a life for myself where I was more independent.

  

  Karen Allen
  • Life
  • Myself
  • Independent

• I don't like controversy.

  

  Sammy Sosa
  • Like
  • Controversy

• The real ornament of woman is her character, her purity.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Real
  • Character
  • Woman

• It is a great honor to become Executive Producer of 'Frontline.' David Fanning's mentorship and partnership over the past fifteen years has been extraordinary. I am inspired by his legacy and honored to guide 'Frontline's future.

  

  Raney Aronson-Rath
  • Great
  • Future
  • Past

• I don't accept gifts from perfect strangers - but then, nobody's perfect.

  

  Zsa Zsa Gabor
  • Perfect
  • Accept
  • Strangers

• I was a 'Duck Hunt' and 'Mario' guy, and stuff like that. I was never technologically driven. I never had all the cool, new toys. I was the youngest child, I wasn't the only child, so I wasn't spoiled as a kid. And, we were on the farm, so we didn't have a lot. Also, with computers, I'm not very good with them. I just check my email.

  

  Garrett Hedlund
  • Good
  • Guy
  • Cool

• We cannot control what emotions or circumstances we will experience next, but we can choose how we will respond to them.

  

  Gary Zukav
  • Experience
  • Control
  • Choose

• All of the very important events in my life happen by chance.

  

  Natalia Makarova
  • Life
  • Important
  • Chance

• While we are examining into everything we sometimes find truth where we least expected it.

  

  Quintilian
  • Truth
  • Sometimes
  • Find

• Respect goes a long way when you carry yourself a certain way and show manners when you first meet someone. If you do that, then it's hard for somebody not to like you.

  

  Lamar Odom
  • Long
  • Respect
  • Yourself

• I've seen deer. I have lots of woodchucks on my property. And bluebirds. Foxes.

  

  Parker Posey
  • Property
  • Seen
  • Deer

• It's so funny to think that I used to be a model and here I am doing arbitrage, shipping and negotiating margins, the list is endless.

  

  Caprice Bourret
  • Model
  • Margins
  • Shipping

• I have heard of people dying from prostate cancer, and they are the unlucky ones, the people who didn't know they had got it, and it went on the rampage.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • People
  • Know
  • Dying

• Panamanian boxing is unique - it's very musical. It's almost like a dance. It has a lot to do with being in the Caribbean and with salsa. When you see a Panamanian boxer, there's a style. There's a playfulness in the way you throw the punches.

  

  Edgar Ramirez
  • Style
  • Dance
  • Unique

• The more I find out about the dynamic and how it works, the more I realize how lucky I am to have ever got anything. Like... there was no need to put me in 'Cinderella Man' - there was no need. Why? Just get an American actor - it would've been cheaper, probably.

  

  Paddy Considine
  • American
  • Actor
  • Works

• I'd pretty much given up hope of being published, so I just wrote the book I wanted to read.

  

  Kate Morton
  • Up
  • Book
  • Hope

• I've done a lot of great things playing for this country and this national team in the youth stage.

  

  Ashlyn Harris
  • Country
  • Things
  • Playing

• Friends are really important, especially when you've had the successes that I've had. I've gone really far in my career, so they're the ones that keep you humble, keep your feet on the ground.

  

  Ferran Adria
  • Important
  • Friends
  • Career

• I don't think I know a Scientologist except when I see one or two of their actors on the Hollywood screen.

  

  Jerry Falwell

• You're a human being, and every time a list of prize nominations comes out and your name isn't on it, you do have that thumb-in-the-eye feeling.

  

  Alice McDermott
  • Time
  • Feeling

• She's telling us how to fight ISIS. Just go to her website. She tells you how to fight ISIS on her website. I don't think General Douglas MacArthur would like that too much. ... See, you're telling the enemy everything you want to do. No wonder you've been fighting ISIS your entire adult life.

  

  Donald Trump
  • Life
  • She
  • Fighting

• I desire only to know the truth, and to live as well as I can...And, to the utmost of my power, I exhort all other men to do the same...I exhort you also to take part in the great combat, which is the combat of life, and greater than every other earthly conflict.

  

  Socrates
  • Life
  • Truth
  • Know