Obama Quote by Aristotle

The sophist sneers: Fool, take Thy pleasure, right or wrong! The pious wail: Forsake A world these sophists throng! Be neither saint nor sophist-led,…

— Matthew Arnold

“The most striking difference between ancient and modern sophists is that the ancients were satisfied with a passing victory of the argument at the…

— Hannah Arendt

Character is that which reveals moral purpose, exposing the class of things a man chooses and avoids.

— Aristotle

“When someone blamed Hecataeus the sophist because that, being invited to the public table, he had not spoken one word all supper-time, Archidamidas answered…

— Plutarch

“It is not that what you can imagine depends on what you know, but that what you know depends on what you can imagine.…

— Jesse Lopes

“He could argue a case for anything, but that doesn’t change the fact he’s wrong most of the time.”

— Michael Monroe

Whoever does not philosophize for the sake of philosophy, but rather uses philosophy as a means, is a sophist.

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

“Man is the measure of all things', said the Sophist Protagora (c. 485-410 B.C.). By that he meant that the question of whether a…

— Jostein Gaarder

Be neither saint nor sophist-led, but be a man.

— Matthew Arnold

Would there be any truth in saying that psychology was created by the sophists to sow distrust between man and his world?

— Rudolf Arnheim

Our advanced and fashionable thinkers are, naturally, out on a wide swing of the pendulum, away from the previous swing of the pendulum… They…

— Anthony Standen

“Why do scientists never debate philosophers? It’s because they know they would be destroyed in argument, when they have to actually clarify their ridiculous…

— Joe Dixon