"There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating --people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing."

Wilde, Oscar | Knowledge | 4 bookmarks

"Carry on any enterprise as if all future success depended on it."

Richelieu, Cardinal De | Commitment | 1 bookmarks

"Arguments are to be avoided; they are always vulgar and often convincing."

Wilde, Oscar | Argument | 3 bookmarks

"Every theory of love, from Plato down teaches that each individual loves in the other sex what he lacks in himself."

Hall, G. Stanely | Men and Women | 2 bookmarks

"Philosophy does not regard pedigree, she received Plato not as a noble, but she made him one."

Seneca | Philosophers and Philosophy | 1 bookmarks

"All thought is naught but a footnote to Plato."

Santayana, George | Thoughts and Thinking | 2 bookmarks

"Socrates had a student named Plato, Plato had a student named Aristotle, and Aristotle had a student named Alexander the Great."

Morris, Tom | Influence | 3 bookmarks

"While wading through the whimsies, the puerilities, and unintelligible jargon of this work [Plato's Republic], I laid it down often to ask myself how it could have been that the world should have so long consented to give reputation to such nonsense as this?"

Jefferson, Thomas | Philosophers and Philosophy | 1 bookmarks

"To know how to disguise is the knowledge of kings."

Richelieu, Cardinal De | Deception | 1 bookmarks

"If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something in them which will hang him."

Richelieu, Cardinal De | Honesty | 1 bookmarks