Famous Quotes & Sayings

Plato

Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.

Robert Nozick

When I was 15 years old, or 16, I carried around on the streets of Brooklyn a paperback copy of Plato's Republic, front cover facing outward. I had read only some of it and understood less, but I was excited by it and knew it was something wonderful.

Virginia Woolf

The weight of the world is on our shoulders, its vision is through our eyes; if we blink or look aside, or turn back to finger what Plato said or remember Napoleon and his conquests, we inflict on the world the injury of some obliquity. This is life…

Werner Heisenberg

My mind was formed by studying philosophy, Plato and that sort of thing.

Walter Kaufmann

There is thus a certain plausibility to Nietzsche's doctrine, though it is dynamite. He maintains in effect that the gulf separating Plato from the average man is greater than the cleft between the average man and a chimpanzee.

Rebecca Solnit

How will you go about finding that thing the nature of which is totally unknown to you?" (Plato) The things we want are transformative, and we don’t know or only think we know what is on the other side of that transformation. Love, wisdom, grace, inspiration- how do you go about finding these things that are in some ways about extending the boundaries of the self into unknown territory, about becoming someone else?

Joseph Joubert

Xenophon wrote with a swan's quill, Plato with a pen of gold, and Thucydides with a brazen stylus.

Koren Zailckas

Without a bottle to hold, I feel incomplete, the way Plato says we are each born only half a circle, and we spend out lives seeking out our other half. A drink is my beloved. Without it, I am wanting; I feel half finished.

Margaret Atwood

Plato said that poets should be excluded from the ideal republic because they are such liars. I am a poet, and I affirm that this is true. About no subject are poets tempted to lie so much as about their own lives; I know one of them who has floated at least five versions of his autobiography, none of them true. I of course - being also a novelist - am a much more truthful person than that. But since poets lie, how can you believe me?

Sarah Polley

It's amazing how the world does actually go on in the middle of things that should stop it for us.

Samuel Beckett

The end is in the beginning and yet you go on.

Wanda Sykes

My worlds collide. When one things happens, it just starts a domino effect - everything else goes on.

William Golding

We just got to go on, that's all. That's what grownups would do.

Kelley Armstrong

He balled up my discarded sweatshirt and put it against his shoulder. “Go on,” he said. “I don’t bite.” “And from what I hear, that’s a good thing.” He gave a rumbling chuckle. “Yeah, it is.” I leaned against his shoulder.

Henry Rollins

I love to go on stage and sing.

Leon Panetta

You know, as director of the CIA, I got an awful lot of intelligence about all the horrible things that could go on across the world.

Elia Kazan

I won't go back to the theater. I like some of the things they're doing but it's different now, not something I could do. I'll go on making films the rest of my life.

Larry David

You know, when you do standup there are certain requirements that you have to do like you have to go on stage and when you get introduced you have to say "Hey,how ya doin'? How are ya?" I couldn't do it. It was false.

Robert Toombs

Certainly there was no just cause of complaint from the Northern States - no advantage was ever sought or obtained by them for their section of the Republic.

Rod Serling

I found that it was all right to have Martians saying things Democrats and Republicans could never say.

Rudy Giuliani

There are very few situations where Republicans cheat. They don't control the inner cities the way Democrats do. Maybe if Republicans controlled the inner cities they would cheat as much as Democrats.

Wendell Phillips

Republics exist only on tenure of being agitated.

Malcolm X

I'm not a Republican, nor a Democrat, nor an American, and got sense enough to know it.

Mike Pence

A republic - if you can keep it - is about limitation, and for good reason, because we are mortal and our actions are imperfect.

Mark Twain

Citizenship is what makes a republic - monarchies can get along without it.

Lauren Bacall

I'm a total Democrat. I'm anti-Republican. And it's only fair that you know it... I'm liberal. The L word!

John Kasich

[Barack Obama] needs to really engage both Republicans and Democrats.