Books Quote by Samuel Johnson

“Were a man to be totally deprived of memory, he would be incapable of forming any just opinion; everything about him would seem a…

— Thomas Paine

“We know so little about Socrates but somehow we still remember he existed; more amazing yet, is how the meaning of ethics has completely…

— Alejandro C. Estrada

“The question up for debate between Socrates and Phaedrus is whether the written word kills memory or aids it--whether it cripples the mind's power,…

— Maggie Nelson

“After a lifetime of living by his wits and his considerable memory, he had given himself full time to the profession of forgetting.”

— John le Carré

There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to learn music and dancing, and…

— Michel de Montaigne

“There is no creature so perfect in wisdom and knowledge but may learn something for time present, and to come, by times past.”

— John Robinson

“It is our ability to forget our problems, through the process of thought, rather than the passage of time, that frees us from the…

— Richard Carlson

“He lived within himself, nourished by his own substance, like some torpid creature which hibernates in caves. Solitude had reacted upon his brain like…

— Joris-Karl Huysmans

That man is wisest who, like Socrates, realizes that his wisdom is worthless

— Plato

You know that the nucleus of a time is not The poet but the poem, the growth of the mind Of the world, the…

— Wallace Stevens

Socrates was a philosopher. He went around pointing out errors in the way things were done. They fed him hemlock.

— Gil Amelio

A writer never forgets the first time he accepted a few coins or a word of praise in exchange for a story. He will…

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon