Adeimantus Plato Quotes & Sayings

For he, Adeimantus, whose mind is fixed upon true being, has surely no time to look down upon the affairs of earth, or to be filled with malice and envy, contending against men — Plato

It's a big enough umbrella, but it's always me that ends up getting wet. — Sting

It's not the fish you bring home from a day's fishing. It's the peace of mind. — Neil Gaiman

We are spontaneous when we are at our genuine best. — Hilary Thayer Hamann

I can't be a wife. I'm not that sort of person. Wives have to compromise all the time. — Sarah Brightman

For a young person cannot judge what is allegorical and what is literal; anything that he receives into his mind at that age is likely to become indelible and unalterable; and therefore it is most important that the tales which the young first hear should be models of virtuous thoughts. There you are right, he replied; but if any one asks where are such models to be found and of what tales are you speaking - how shall we answer him? I said to him, You and I, Adeimantus, at this moment are not poets, but founders of a State: now the founders of a State ought to know the general forms in which poets should cast their tales, and the limits which must be observed by them, but to make the tales is not their business. Very — Plato

What we need to wake people up to now is the crisis in imagination and concern for the greater good. We have no idea what the next ten years, much less the next fifty years, will demand of the coming generation. What we do know is that unless we have a people prepared and eager to meet those crises creatively and compassionately, there is not much hope for this poor old planet of ours. — Katherine Paterson

The issue is not that morals be applied to public policy, it's that conservatives bring public policy to spheres of our lives where it should not enter. — Barney Frank

Consensus is a poor substitute for leadership. — Charlotte Beers

I tell the truth. And I know what I'm talking about. That's why I'm a threat. — Snoop Dogg

Magic called love that binds our hearts together and yet is the very thing that has the power to break them beyond repair. — Namrata

And may we not say, Adeimantus, that the most gifted minds, when they are ill- educated, become the worst? — Plato

Oh, daddy, by what witchcraft have you coaxed that sulky rose-bush into bloom?'
'No witchcraft at all - it just bloomed because you were coming home, baby,' said her father. — L.M. Montgomery

Nobody can be uncheered with a balloon. — A.A. Milne