Sokrates Quotes & Sayings

Very, very broadly speaking, you can put directors into two areas: One for whom you work, and the other with whom you work. And I prefer the latter, for obvious reasons. It's a great relief to feel that you're working with someone rather than for someone. — John Hurt

And what was the song which she sang? Ah, my little man, I am too old to sing that song, and you too young to understand it. — Charles Kingsley

People really understand very little of one another. Sometimes when I speak to him, my Cid looks very hard and straight into my face as if in search of something (a city on a map?) like someone who has tumbled off a star. But he's not the one who feels alien - ever, I think. He lives in a small country of hope, which is his heart. Like Sokrates he fails to understand why travel should be such a challenge to the muscles of the heart, for other people. Around every bend of the road is a city of gold, isn't it?
I am the kind of person who thinks no, probably not. And we walk, side by side, in different countries. — Anne Carson

I guess I was raised in a household with a lot of reverence for the physical sanctity of books. You didn't destroy books. — Lev Grossman

Sometimes I worry I'm not going to be the best parent because if my baby gets a skin fungus I might sell him at a garage sale. — Sara Quin

Steve Jobs was a digital pioneer, but when he went home, he listened to vinyl. — Neil Young

Gotta say you Portland people take weird to a new level. — Devon Monk

As Sokrates tells it, your story begins the moment Eros enters you. That incursion is the biggest risk of your life. How you handle it is an index of the quality, wisdom, and decorum of the things inside you. As you handle it you come into contact with what is inside you, in a sudden and startling way. You perceive what you are, what you lack, what you could be. — Anne Carson

What made him imagine he could have a dialogue with them?" "He's Sokrates," I said. "He's like a two-year-old sticking pencils in his ear," she said. — Jo Walton

Men are not born equal in themselves, so I think it beneath a man to postulate that they are. If I thought myself as good as Sokrates I should be a fool; and if, not really believing it, I asked you to make me happy by assuring me of it, you would rightly despise me. So why should I insult my fellow-citizens by treating them as fools and cowards? A man who thinks himself as good as everyone else will be at no pains to grow better. On the other hand, I might think myself as good as Sokrates, and even persuade other fools to agree with me; but under a democracy, Sokrates is there in the Agora to prove me wrong. I want a city where I can find my equals and respect my betters, whoever they are; and where no one can tell me to swallow a lie because it is expedient, or some other man's will. — Mary Renault

I didn't actually realise what apartheid meant. I'm probably a bit naive, but I thought it was more of a vague segregation, like on the beaches and buses. — John Deacon

Amongst many qualities of a true leader, he is a successful manager who has mastered the art of people management. — Rehan Waris

For a long time, I've had a recurring dream - I dream I don't have to write any more, that I'm free. I'm not free, alas; I'm still clearing the same terrain, with the impression that it's never finished. — Patrick Modiano

You can't trust everything that ass Plato wrote, Sokrates said. — Jo Walton

Without heads, where might they keep their minds, if they have them?" Kebes put in. "In their livers, obviously," Sokrates said. — Jo Walton

Change is the sum of the universe, and what is of nature ought not to be feared. But one gives it hostages, and lays one's grief upon the gods. Sokrates is free, and would have taught me freedom. But I have yoked the immortal horse that draws the chariot with a horse of earth; and when the one falls, both are entangled in the traces. — Mary Renault

Sokrates' wife, Xanthippe, had in antiquity a reputation as a shrew - but being married to such a man would have tried anyone's patience, and the evidence is not conclusive. — Hilary J. Deighton

How do you like your drones now, asshole?" Nearby, — Daniel Suarez

Women and girls have been my passion for my whole life. — Kathy Calvin