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plato ignorance opinion
Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance. Plato
plato years brooklyn
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. Robert Nozick
plato eye vision
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… Virginia Woolf
plato philosophy mind
My mind was formed by studying philosophy, Plato and that sort of thing. Werner Heisenberg
plato men average
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. Walter Kaufmann
plato inspiration thinking
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? Rebecca Solnit
plato swans style
Xenophon wrote with a swan's quill, Plato with a pen of gold, and Thucydides with a brazen stylus. Joseph Joubert
plato circles bottles
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. Koren Zailckas
plato liars lying
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? Margaret Atwood
books difference keen kids legitimate loved push
Kids and adults have a difference of opinion when it comes to what constitutes legitimate reading. Adults often push books that they loved as children, which, ironically, were often books that their parents weren't particularly keen on. Jeff Kinney
books cats cute forget garfield kid name pick says stop wrong
Kid books can get cute and a-d-o-r-a-b-l-e. Garfield says cute rots the intellect. Don't forget the name of the cat! You pick up cats the wrong way and they stop being adorable...they become Scratch. Stephen Jones
books choice freedom key kids motivated reason
Kids say the No. 1 reason they don't read more is that they can't find books they like. Freedom of choice is a key to getting them motivated and excited. James Patterson
books knowledge load wisdom
Knowledge without wisdom is a load of books on the back an ass
books critical fiercely harry kids love potter
Kids are so fiercely opinionated, that if they love the Harry Potter books and they go see the movie, they'll be the first to say, 'That was wrong! They didn't get that right!' They're storytellers themselves. They're critics. They're going to have the critical opinion. Spike Jonze
book interested kids start summer supplies taking thinking vacation
Kids are not interested in taking their summer vacation to start thinking about back-to-school wardrobes, supplies and book bags.
book game golf good itself justifies painting personal photograph picture playing taking wrote
I wrote this book for a sense of personal satisfaction. Just like taking a good photograph or painting a picture or playing a good golf game or something, it's the thing in itself that justifies it. William Rehnquist
bookstore crime love people shelves solving
Just look at the shelves of any bookstore in any airport, and you see how much people love crime and mysteries, how much they love solving puzzles.
book good happier knowledge
Just the knowledge that a good book is awaiting one at the end of a long day makes that day happier Kathleen Norris
genius inspire inventive looks museum people spirit
He is the very spirit of inventive genius that this museum looks to inspire people with.
genius neighbors self
To know one's self is wisdom, but not to know one's neighbors is genius
genius good says stays strengths system within
He's a good coach. You know, you don't have to be a genius when you have 6-2 and 6-2 on the front. But the system he runs, he understands his strengths and stays within them. I think that says a lot about their program.
genius playing
He's been playing great. I had nothing to do with that. It's not genius on my part; he's just playing great.
genius men
What makes men of genius, or rather, what they make, is not new ideas, it is that idea - possessing them - that what has been said has still not been said enough. Eugene Delacroix
genius mixture
There is no genius without a mixture of madness.
genius looked
He is going to be looked on as a genius for that.
genius prank pulling
He'll go for years on pulling off a prank, ... His genius in that one was not pulling a prank on me. Brad Pitt
genius faults
It's not my fault so much as my genius, Richelle Mead