"Not by wisdom do they [poets] make what……" — Socrates
"Not by wisdom do they [poets] make what they compose, but by a gift of nature and an inspiration similar to that of the diviners and the oracles."
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331 Quotes by Socrates
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Contentment is natural wealth.
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The comic and the tragic lie inseparably close, like light and shadow.
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To find yourself, think for yourself.
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I am a citizen, not of Athens, or Greece, but of the world.
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He is a man of courage who does not run away, but remains at his post and fights against the…
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Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.
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The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
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The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the…
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Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune nor too scornful in…
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Only the extremely ignorant or the extremely intelligent can resist change.
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Whoever would have his body supple, easy and healthful should learn to dance.
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Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers.
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I am my own secretary; I dictate, I compose, I copy all myself.
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All the choir of heaven and furniture of earth - in a word, all those bodies which compose the frame…
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It is not hard to compose, but what is fabulously hard is to leave the superfluous notes under the table.
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We lie to one another every day, in the sweetest way, often unconsciously. We dress ourselves and compose ourselves in…
— John le Carre
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My dad had been an ardent amateur photographer, and he taught me to compose a photograph from the back to…
— Sam Abell
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I would love to compose something for dance before I kick the bucket, and I'm not closed-minded about the dance,…
— Tori Amos
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Given for one instant an intelligence which could comprehend all the forces by which nature is animated and the respective…
— Pierre-Simon Laplace
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Good poetry and successful revolution change our lives. And you cannot compose a good poem or wage a revolution without…
— June Jordan
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My sole literary ambition is to write one good novel, then retire to my hut in the desert, assume the…
— Edward Abbey
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The universe is an asymmetrical entity. I am inclined to believe that life as it is manifested to us must…
— Louis Pasteur
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I believe that traditional wisdom is incomplete. A composer can have all the talent of Mozart and a passionate desire…
— Martin Seligman
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Amidst the vicissitudes of the earth's surface, species cannot be immortal, but must perish, one after another, like the individuals…
— Charles Lyell
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