Patoco Quotes & Sayings

We've become so glorified in the movie-star system that it's become this artificial royalty. The truth is that we're circus clowns. — Nicolas Cage

In the 1970s, we had Carl Sagan, and he was so suave with his turtleneck and his tweed jacket. And he was, you know, he made science look cool. And in punk rock, we haven't had that. We haven't had the Carl Sagan of punk. — Greg Graffin

Whereas, our argument shows that the power and capacity of learning exists in the soul already; and that just as the eye was unable to turn from darkness to light without the whole body, so too the instrument of knowledge can only by the movement of the whole soul be turned from the world of becoming into that of being, and learn by degrees to endure the sight of being, and of the brightest and best of being, or in other words, of the good. — Plato

A simple rule in dealing with those who are hard to get along with is to remember that this person is striving to assert his superiority; and you must deal with him from that point of view. — Alfred Adler

Empty heads, cognitive science has taught us, learn nothing. The powerful cultural and personal flexibility of our species is owed at least in part to our starting off so well-informed; we are good learners because we know what to pay attention to and what questions are the right ones to ask. — Paul Bloom

Ignorance is degrading only when found in company with great riches. — Arthur Schopenhauer

I did try very hard to tell the whole truth without violating my literary instincts. — George Orwell

Haven't you ever known someone rejected by a lover, who, consumed by rage and jealousy, never lets go? They look on from a distance, unseen but boiling inside. The emotion never seems to tire, this hatred mixed with intense obsession, even with a kind of twisted love. — Scott Westerfeld

Love has, at its best, made the inherent sadness of life bearable, and its beauty manifest. — Kay Redfield Jamison

Wisdom, in the world of enlightenment, is not gained through conversation. Wisdom and enlightenment is something that you gain by making the mind still. — Frederick Lenz

I'm beginning to think theres more freedom in North korea sometimes than there is in the United States. — Mike Huckabee

If you work for money, you give the power to your employer. If your money works for you, you keep and control the power. — Robert Kiyosaki