« All Accounts Quotes · Plato's Page
Accounts Quotes by Plato
- So their combinations with themselves and with each other give rise to endless complexities, which anyone who is to give a likely account of reality…
- And we shall most likely be defeated, and you will most likely be victors in the contest, if you learn so to order your lives…
- If in a discussion of many matters ... we are not able to give perfectly exact and self-consistent accounts, do not be surprised: rather we…
- The true lover of learning then must his earliest youth, as far as in him lies, desire all truth.... He whose desires are drawn toward…
- Vision, in my view, is the cause of the greatest benefit to us, inasmuch as none of the accounts now given concerning the Universe would…
More Accounts Quotes
- No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world… — Isaac Asimov
- A soul which gives itself to prayer, either much or little, should on no account be kept within narrow bounds. — Teresa of Avila
- Science and technology multiply around us. To an increasing extent they dictate the languages in which we speak and think. Either we… — J. G. Ballard
- It is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do… — Douglas Adams
- Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job. — Douglas Adams
- Do not measure your loss by itself; if you do, it will seem intolerable; but if you will take all human affairs… — Saint Basil
- With regard to donations always expect the most from prudent people, who keep their own accounts. — Joseph Addison
- To give an accurate and exhaustive account of that period would need a far less brilliant pen than mine. — Max Beerbohm
- There is an immense, painful longing for a broader, more flexible, fuller, more coherent, more comprehensive account of what we human beings… — Saul Bellow
- To me, it really seems visible today that ethics is not something exterior to the economy, which, as technical matter, could function… — Pope Benedict XVI
- I've never had a bank account in Switzerland since 1984. Why would the Swiss do this to me? Maybe the Swiss are… — Benazir Bhutto
- No matter how you cut it, this real debate on personal accounts is about the legitimacy of Social Security; it's not about… — Joe Biden