Meredith Mcguire > Meredith's Quotes

“Are you not ashamed of caring so much for the making of money and for fame and prestige, when you neither think nor care about wisdom and truth and the improvement of your soul?”
― Socrates

“My plainness of speech makes them hate me, and what is their hatred but a
proof that I am speaking the truth.”
― Socrates, Apology

“Expectations are resentments under construction.”
― Anne Lamott

“We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light. / Nije problem dijete koje se boji mraka; prava tragedija su odrasli koji se boje svjetla.”
― Plato

“Similarly with regard to truth, won't we say that a soul is maimed if it hates a voluntary falsehood, cannot endure to have one in itself, and is greatly angered when it exists in others, but is nonetheless content to accept an involuntary falsehood, isn't angry when it is caught being ignorant, and bears its lack of learning easily, wallowing in it like a pig?”
― Plato

“A library of wisdom, is more precious than all wealth, and all things that are desirable cannot be compared to it. Whoever therefore claims to be zealous of truth, of happiness, of wisdom or knowledge, must become a lover of books.”
― Plato

“Plato is my friend, Aristotle is my friend, but my greatest friend is truth.”
― Isaac Newton

“for the best possible state of your soul, as I say to you: Wealth does not bring about excellence, but excellence makes wealth and everything else good for men, both individually and collectively.”
― Plato, The Trial and Death of Socrates

“The truth is that we isolate a particular kind of love and appropriate it for the name of love, which really belongs to a wider whole.”
― Plato, The Symposium

“Appearance tyrannizes over truth.”
― Plato, The Republic