Socratic Irony Quotes & Sayings

I have heard it remarked that men are not to be reasoned out of an opinion they have not reasoned themselves into. — Fisher Ames

Magick is the science and art of causing change to occur in conformity with will. — Aleister Crowley

It's not that we didn't get along, it's just that my mother-in-law is very objective. She objected to everything I did. — Beverly D'Angelo

His way was like other people's; he mounted no high horse; he was just
a man and a citizen. He indulged in no Socratic irony. But his
discourse was full of Attic grace; those who heard it went away neither
disgusted by servility, nor repelled by ill-tempered censure, but on
the contrary lifted out of themselves by charity, and encouraged to
more orderly, contented, hopeful lives. — Arthur Quiller-Couch

To him that is pitiless the deeds of pity are ever strange and beyond comprehension. — J.R.R. Tolkien

An historic institution, which never went right, is really quite much of a miracle as an institution that cannot go wrong. — G.K. Chesterton