Metrodorus Quotes & Sayings

None of us knows anything, not even whether we know or do not know, nor do we know whether not knowing and knowing exist, nor in general whether there is anything or not. — Metrodorus Of Chios

When we work so hard at our preparations for Christmas, we often feel cheated and frustrated when others fail to notice the results of our efforts. We need to ask ourselves why we are doing the things we choose to do. If love motivates us-love for our families, for our neighbors - then we are free to simply enjoy the actual process of what we do, rather than requiring the approval and admiration of others for the results of our labors. — Ellyn Sanna

My world has been quite rich in my life, and I've been happy. I've no regrets. — Alexis Wright

We should look to the mind, and not to the outward appearance. — Aesop

The happiest thing that can be said about democracy ... is that it is one of the few systems that has been willing to risk a long period of confusion and mixed purposes for the sake of giving man a chance to grow up in mind and responsibility. — Harry Allen Overstreet

Shall I tell you what makes love so dangerous? 'Tis the too high idea we are apt to form of it. — Ninon De L'Enclos

Go back to Socrates: "Know thyself." For Socrates, there are only two kinds of people: the wise, who know they are fools; and fools, who think they are wise. Similarly, for Christ and all the prophets, there are only two kinds of people: saints, who know they are sinners; and sinners, who think they are saints. Which are you? — Peter Kreeft

It is unnatural in a large field to have only one shaft of wheat, and in the infinite Universe only one living world. — Metrodorus Of Chios

A single ear of corn in a large field is as strange as a single world in infinite space. — Metrodorus Of Chios

People did not spend enough time sitting and talking, she thought, and it was important that sitting and talking time be preserved. — Alexander McCall Smith

Men ought not to faint because men ought to pray. — G. Campbell Morgan

Life never forgives weaknesses. — Adolf Hitler

I saw the 'Popstars' programme and to me it looked more like 'Opportunity Knocks' than the kind of cutting-edge postmoderism that The Guardian would like to have us believe it was. I think what it's more about is the public and the music industry's bloodlust. It's just like someone itching to say 'Oh, confound it all, let's bring back hanging, that was good entertainment'. — Luke Haines

Nobody's perfect but I definitely strive. — Chali 2na

Pain is important: how we evade it, how we succumb to it, how we deal with it, how we transcend it. — Audre Lorde

We don't see them, but, invisible, they act all around us. — Umberto Eco

It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer. — Abbas Naqvi

To consider the Earth as the only populated world in infinite space is as absurd as to assert that in an entire field of millet, only one grain will grow. — Metrodorus Of Chios

We must have books for recreation and entertainment, as well as books for instruction and for business; the former are agreeable, the latter useful, and the human mind requires both. The cannon law and the codes of Justinian shall have due honor, and reign at the universities; but Homer and Virgil need not therefore be banished. We will cultivate the olive and the vine, but without eradicating the myrtle and the rose. — Honore De Balzac