Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jennifer Frederick

It goes back to the Greeks. Plato was an idealist, Aristotle was a materialist.

George Otero

Herodotus, Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle all claimed that they knew nothing and so I guess I know even less.

Stacy Schiff

Of course, women have long exercised influence behind the scenes. A few thousand years ago this drove Aristotle to distraction: 'What difference does it make whether women rule or the rulers are ruled by women? The result is the same.'

James Gleick

It's fair to say that Wikipedia has spent far more time considering the philosophical ramifications of categorization than Aristotle and Kant ever did.

J. Paul Getty

During the 1950s, Aristotle Onassis and I formed what grew to be a close friendship and association in several business ventures.

Nicholas Jarecki

Aristotle wrote the 'Poetics' 2,400 years ago. It's really an instruction manual for aspiring filmmakers. It's as valid today as it was then.

Diogenes

Aristotle was asked how much educated men are superior to the uneducated: "As much," said he, "as the living are to the dead

Rachel Sheinkin

Aristotle said that the essence of drama is fear and pity. Where do you feel more fear and pity than when you look at a kid in a spelling bee?

Johnson

Being reproached for giving to an unworthy person, Aristotle said, ''I did not give it to the man, but to humanity.

Jose C. Orozco

All praise to the masters indeed, but we too could produce a Kant or a Hugo.

Ernest Cline

I spent most of my childhood welded to my Atari 2600, until I got my first computer, a TRS-80.

Joe Battista

We've spent the whole week working on defense. Everything we've been doing has been working on defense.

Roger Wilson

We've spent more time at the tent than at the games.

E. O. Wilson

We've spent a lot of time together. If it works out, it would be great.

George Chapman

We've spent $300,000 and it doesn't look much different.

Jay Weatherill

What we are trying to do is to look at all of those resources and say, well, would they be better spent on just advocacy and information, or can we make savings out of that and redirect them into savings.

Terry Jenkins

If we wouldn't have done anything, we would have spent more.

King Krule

A lot of the time, I was unhappy as a kid, so I spent it, I guess, in a gray place.

George Raft

Part of it went on gambling, and part of it went on women. The rest I spent foolishly.

Charles W. Chesnutt

There's time enough, but none to spare.

Charles de Lint

In the dark attics of our minds, all times mingle.

Charles Dickens

A boy's story is the best that is ever told.

Charles Caleb Colton

Tomorrow! It is a period nowhere to be found in all the registers of time, unless, perchance, in the fool's calendar.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time is the measurer of all things, but is itself immeasurable, and the grand discloser of all things, but is itself undisclosed.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time ... advances like the slowest tide, but retreats like the swiftest torrent.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time,- that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.

Charles Caleb Colton

To look back to antiquity is one thing, to go back to it is another.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time is the most subtle yet the most insatiable of depredators, and by appearing to take nothing is permitted to take all; nor can it be satisfied until it has stolen the world from us, and us from the world. It constantly flies, yet overcomes all things by flight; and although it is the present ally, it will be the future conqueror of death.

Daniel H. Pink

Wikipedia represents a belief in the supremacy of reason and goodness of others.

Clay Shirky

A Wikipedia article is a process, not a product.

Clay Shirky

Wikipedia [...] is the product not of collectivism but of unending argumentation.

John Green

Oh, Wikipedia, with your tension between those who would share knowledge and those who would destroy it.

Scott Adsit

Wikipedia gets a lot of things wrong.

Gore Vidal

Everything's wrong on Wikipedia.

Nicholson Baker

Wikipedia flourished partly because it was a shrine to altruism.

Nora Ephron

You can't retrieve you life (unless you're on Wikipedia, in which case you can retrieve an inaccurate version of it).

Lois McMaster Bujold

Wikipedia is so dangerous.