Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something.
Plato
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Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something."
-Plato
PLATO Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something.
PLATO Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools talk because they have to say something.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Wise people talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something.
PLATO Preach not because you have to say something, but because you have something to say.
RICHARD WHATELY Now they have a riddle.
- Criminal Minds
DEYTH BANGER I don't talk because I have to say something. I talk because I have something to say.
TURYASINGURA NELSON DERRICK You don't write because you want to say something, you write because you have something to say.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD I'm not big on the pasty because they say the pastry in the pasty can bring on indigestion.
TERRY WOGAN You don't write because you want to say something, you write because you have something to say.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD I blog because I have something to say.
EDDIE HUANG People want to say something negative before they say something good.
ESTELLE Young men speak about the future because they have no past, and old men speak of the past because th...
BOYD K. PACKER Reasons... questions... what they have in common?
- All get finded in the hard way.
DEYTH BANGER Before I speak, I have something important to say.
GROUCHO MARX The wise are wise only because they love. The fool are fools only because they think they can unders...
PAULO COELHO You don't write because you want to say something; you write because you've got something to say.
SOURCE UNKNOWN They say stay in the lines, but there's always something better on the other side.
JOHN MAYER A wise person has something to say, a fool has to say something.
UNKNOWN In Greece wise men speak and fools decide.
GEORGE SANTAYANA Whitney and I have fun reading the newspaper sometimes. You'd be amazed at the places they say I...
BOBBY BROWN Basically, writers write because they have something to say...Everyone has a story in them, writers ...
VIRGINIA ALISON When you have something good to say, say it. When you have something ill to say, say something else.
CHRISTIAN D. LARSON I have a pretty positive view of environmental activism, but I didn't know much about the ELF. A...
MARSHALL CURRY When you see something that is not right, not fair, not just, you have to speak up. You have to say ...
JOHN LEWIS A wise man's goal shouldn't be to say something profound, but to say something useful.
CRISS JAMI They say I'm a revolutionary, but they're all wrong.
RALPH BAKSHI They say miracles are past.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The real reason the number of things that are shared via social media every single minute is so astr...
MOKOKOMA MOKHONOANA Always have something to say. The man who has something to say and who is known never to speak unles...
DALE CARNEGIE Never rise to speak till you have something to say; and when you have said it, cease.
WITHERSPOON Never rise to speak till you have something to say; and when you have said it, cease
JOHN WITHERSPOON Patients often say they can speak freely because they cannot see the therapist.
RAGNAR BEER Leave Your Life On Your Own Conditions, Because People Always Have Something To Say About
NARESH JELLA It's hard to explain," said Brutha. "But I think it's got something to do with how people should beh...
TERRY PRATCHETT I'm a good actor in that sense for directors because I always do what they say.
ALEX COX Great men undertake great things because they are great; fools, because they think them easy
VAUVENARGUES MARQUIS DE They say actions speak louder than words, but actions don't speak. People speak, and people are ...
JENNETTE MCCURDY You may have something wise to say, but HOW YOU SAY IT may make it unwise! RECREATE it, else you'll ...
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR When I say, 'I'm sorry,' it's because I regret something.
LUIS SUAREZ It isn't what they say about you, it's what they whisper.
ERROL FLYNN Don't trust everyone, especially if they say, 'Trust me.'
MICHELLE PHAN I think politicians nationwide have earned a reputation sometimes that is very unfavorable because t...
SUSANA MARTINEZ We've created something we're not too thrilled with. People say they're locked in because they can't...
BRAD MONROE My plays are talky; I say shut up and listen. They are about black men talking, and in American soci...
AUGUST WILSON Men are what they are because of what they do. Not what they say.
FREDRIK BACKMAN Scared people don’t really mean what they say, they’re just looking for ways to rationalize ever...
CHRIS DIETZEL Shallow men speak of the past; wise men of the present and fools of the future
MADAME MARIE DU DEFFAND If it's a man's world, as they say, then men, your world is a poorly run carnage fest.
HENRY ROLLINS Why do we make records? Because we want to say something. Why are you in art? Because you want to sa...
PATRICK STUMP They say stats are for losers and I guess that's what it was. Because we were concerned about where ...
EUGENE ROBINSON We love films because they makes us feel something. They speak to our desires, which are never small...
NINA LACOUR The most original of authors are not so because they advance what is new, but more because they know...
JOHANN VON GOETHE Men are what they are because of what they do. Not what they say,' said Ove
FREDRIK BACKMAN Wise men profit more by fools than fools by wise men.
MARCUS PORCIUS CATO It's so simple to be wise. Just think of something stupid to say and say the opposite.
SAMUEL LEVENSON Some women flirt more with what they say, and some with what they do.
ANNA HELD I'm trying to adapt - they say you have to adapt to vertigo.
JASON DAY 'I realize they say we are 'wacko' and 'out there, but we are the most rational of a...
BRIGITTE BOISSELIER I'm very ticklish. They say being tickled is a form of torture.
MELISSA SAGEMILLER People are wrong when they say opera is not what it used to be. It is what it used to be. That is wh...
NOEL COWARD Wise men profit more from fools than fools from wise men; for the wise men shun the mistakes of fool...
CATO THE ELDER In my 39 years in the military, I have learned that you are not a profession just because you say yo...
MARTIN DEMPSEY Respect, honor and appreciate those who say thank you when you do something for them even they say t...
HLONIM Wise men are more dependent on fools than fools on wise men.
CATO (MARCUS PORCIUS CATO "THE ELDER") (A/K/A CATO THE CENSOR) It's so simple to be wise. Just think of something stupid to say and then don't say it.
RONNIE SHAKES It's so simple to be wise. Just think of something stupid to say and then don't say it.
SAM LEVENSON The worst evil is - and that's the product of censorship - is the self-censorship, because that ...
MILOS FORMAN Hell, I suppose if you stick around long enough they have to say something nice about you.
AVA GARDNER Where I used to think that this life would be good. And I would do things that I thought that I shou...
SOMETHING CORPORATE I'm just shocked, ... because it's something I don't know how to say.
JUAN CARLOS I think a song that's got something to say. I'm not much on gimmicks. I never have been because they...
BILLY ECKSTINE It's so simple to be wise. Just think of something stupid to say and say the opposite.
SAM LEVENSON You don't remember people you love by the wise things they say but the silly things they do.
HOWARD JACOBSON Being Asian in this business is something you have to consider, because sometimes people aren't ...
LUCY LIU Lots of small business men have been contacting me to say they wish they had the nerve to say what I...
DAVID A. SIEGEL I'm like, 'What world am I living in?' Aren't movies made to have something to say? Why make a movie...
JAKE GYLLENHAAL I speak to millions every day, but it's different one-on-one when people have paid to hear you say s...
OPRAH WINFREY I didn't allow cue cards because, to my mind, when you're acting with someone you listen when they s...
SID CAESAR People may or may not say what they mean ... but they always say something designed to get what they...
GABRIEL GARCIA MARQUEZ People may or may not say what they mean... but they always say something designed to get what they ...
DAVID MAMET A novelist who writes nothing for 10 years finds his reputation rising. Because I keep on producing ...
J. B. PRIESTLEY They didn't have to say a word. I knew what it was. But they said it anyway, because they have to. T...
BETTY VEZINA Women speak because they wish to speak, whereas a man speaks only when driven to speak by something ...
JEAN KERR Kenny's got the wrong guy. You know why? Because if I say, 'No comment,' I feel guilty about somethi...
OZZIE GUILLEN That's very rewarding because it something less they have to think about and who they are cooking fo...
AMY NEWMAN Wise men learn more from fools than fools from the wise.
CATO (MARCUS PORCIUS CATO "THE ELDER") (A/K/A CATO THE CENSOR) Wise men learn more from fools than fools from the wise.
CATO THE ELDER I'll have something to say about that.
CHARLES RHODES They say marriages are made in Heaven. But so is thunder and lightning.
CLINT EASTWOOD The left-brainer and the economist in me says watch what people do, not what they say.
DAN PINK They say Rome wasn't built in a day, but I wasn't on that particular job.
BRIAN CLOUGH Twice and thrice over, as they say, good is it to repeat and review what is good.
PLATO They say the universe is expanding. That should help with the traffic.
STEVEN WRIGHT When I learned Japanese, they say that I sounded like a Chinese with diarrhea!
CHARO They say Afghanistan is the worst country for a girl to be born. Hogwash!
RULA GHANI But as they say about sharks, it's not the ones you see that you have to worry about, it's t...
DAVID BLAINE They say that the best furniture and clothing design from the '50s and '60s is Scandinavian ...
CHRISTIAN LACROIX In theater, they say a theater piece is only as good as its transitions.
REGGIE WATTS Don't do it, because you have to do it.
Do it, because you love to do it.
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PLATO When a Benefit is wrongly conferred, the author of the Benefit may often be said to injure.
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PLATO Any man may easily do harm, but not every man can do good to another.
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PLATO There is no such thing as a lovers' oath.
PLATO Man is a wingless animal with two feet and flat nails.
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PLATO Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.
PLATO Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.
PLATO It is right to give every man his due.
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PLATO When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest or treaty, and there is nothing more to ...
PLATO I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they ca...
PLATO Tyranny naturally arises out of democracy.
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PLATO No trace of slavery ought to mix with the studies of the freeborn man. No study, pursued under compu...
PLATO I would fain grow old learning many things.
PLATO Science is nothing but perception.
PLATO It is a common saying, and in everybody's mouth, that life is but a sojourn.
PLATO The eyes of the soul of the multitudes are unable to endure the vision of the divine.
PLATO He who steals a little steals with the same wish as he who steals much, but with less power.
PLATO As the builders say, the larger stones do not lie well without the lesser.
PLATO We do not learn; and what we call learning is only a process of recollection.
PLATO Democracy passes into despotism.
PLATO No man should bring children into the world who is unwilling to persevere to the end in their nature...
PLATO Knowledge without justice ought to be called cunning rather than wisdom.
PLATO Justice means minding one's own business and not meddling with other men's concerns.
PLATO Philosophy begins in wonder.
PLATO The community which has neither poverty nor riches will always have the noblest principles.
PLATO Courage is a kind of salvation.
PLATO And what, Socrates, is the food of the soul? Surely, I said, knowledge is the food of the soul.
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PLATO The highest reach of injustice is to be deemed just when you are not.
PLATO To prefer evil to good is not in human nature; and when a man is compelled to choose one of two evil...
PLATO The good is the beautiful.
PLATO To suffer the penalty of too much haste, which is too little speed.
PLATO Cunning... is but the low mimic of wisdom.
PLATO The most important part of education is proper training in the nursery.
PLATO Apply yourself both now and in the next life. Without effort, you cannot be prosperous. Though the l...
PLATO Man - a being in search of meaning.
PLATO Wonder is the feeling of the philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.
PLATO For a man to conquer himself is the first and noblest of all victories.
PLATO The greatest wealth is to live content with little.
PLATO Love is a serious mental disease.
PLATO This City is what it is because our citizens are what they are.
PLATO Ignorance, the root and stem of all evil.
PLATO Thinking: the talking of the soul with itself.
PLATO He who is of calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age, but to him who is of an opp...
PLATO When men speak ill of thee, live so as nobody may believe them.
PLATO All the gold which is under or upon the earth is not enough to give in exchange for virtue.
PLATO Better a little which is well done, than a great deal imperfectly.
PLATO Life must be lived as play.
PLATO Necessity... the mother of invention.
PLATO He who commits injustice is ever made more wretched than he who suffers it.
PLATO There is no harm in repeating a good thing.
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PLATO Honesty is for the most part less profitable than dishonesty.
PLATO The blame is his who chooses: God is blameless.
PLATO If a man neglects education, he walks lame to the end of his life.
PLATO The measure of a man is what he does with power.
PLATO People are like dirt. They can either nourish you and help you grow as a person or they can stunt yo...
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PLATO Man is a two-legged animal without feathers.
PLATO Man is a being in search of meaning.
PLATO If the study of all these sciences which we have enumerated, should ever bring us to their mutual as...
PLATO Truth is its own reward.
PLATO They deem him their worst enemy who tells them the truth.
PLATO They are all parts of time, and the past and future are created species of time, which we unconsciou...
PLATO Nothing in the affairs of men is worthy of great anxiety.
PLATO Thinking: The talking of the soul with itself.
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PLATO Old age has a great sense of calm and freedom. When the passions have relaxed their hold and have es...
PLATO A well begun is half ended.
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PLATO if someone got to see the Beautiful itself, absolute, pure, unmixed, not polluted by human flesh or ...
PLATO Do not train a child to learn by force or harshness; but direct them to it by what amuses their mind...
PLATO Only the dead have seen the end of war.
PLATO Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle.
PLATO They do certainly give very strange, and newfangled, names to diseases.
PLATO States are as the men, they grow out of human characters.
PLATO Pleasure is the greatest incentive to evil.
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PLATO Let nobody speak mischief of anybody.
PLATO Even the gods love jokes.
PLATO All learning has an emotional base.
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PLATO The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.
PLATO He best keeps from anger who remembers that God is always looking upon him.
PLATO Hereditary honors are a noble and a splendid treasure to descendants.
PLATO Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depends on simplicity.
PLATO Remember how in that communion only, beholding beauty with the eye of the mind, he will be enabled t...
PLATO There are few people so stubborn in their atheism who when danger is pressing in will not acknowledg...
PLATO Any city however small, is in fact divided into two, one the city of the poor, the other of the rich...
PLATO The first and the best victory is to conquer self.
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PLATO Poetry comes nearer to vital truth than history.
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PLATO These, then, will be some of the features of democracy... it will be, in all likelihood, an agreeabl...
PLATO Whatever deceives men seems to produce a magical enchantment.
PLATO To the rulers of the state then, if to any, it belongs of right to use falsehood, to deceive either ...
PLATO We ought to fly away from earth to heaven as quickly as we can; and to fly away is to become like Go...
PLATO Attention to health is life greatest hindrance.
PLATO Those who intend on becoming great should love neither themselves or their own things, but only what...
PLATO Honesty is for the most par less profitable than dishonesty.
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PLATO In the world of knowledge, the essential Form of Good is the limit of our inquiries, and can barely ...
PLATO The democratic youth lives along day by day, gratifying the desire that occurs to him, at one time d...
PLATO Excess generally causes reaction, and produces a change in the opposite direction, whether it be in ...
PLATO I have good hope that there is something after death.
PLATO When the mind is thinking it is talking to itself.
PLATO The excessive increase of anything causes a reaction in the opposite direction.
PLATO Whenever a person strives, by the help of dialectic, to start in pursuit of every reality by a simpl...
PLATO In particular I may mention Sophocles the poet, who was once asked in my presence, How do you feel a...
PLATO Of all the animals, the boy is the most unmanageable
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PLATO The wisest have the most authority
PLATO Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another
PLATO The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life
PLATO The Paphian Queen to Cnidos made repair
Across the tide to see her image there:
Then looking u...
PLATO I guess when your heart gets broken you sort of start to see cracks in everything. I'm convinced tha...
PLATO Wise people talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something.
PLATO Excess generally causes reaction, and produces a change in the opposite direction, whether it be in ...
PLATO This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears he is a protector.
PLATO The punishment which the wise suffer, who refuse to take part in government, is to live under the go...
PLATO Music and rhythm find their way into the secret places of the soul
PLATO The highest form of pure thought is in mathematics
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PLATO The spiritual eyesight improves as the physical eyesight declines. -Plato.
PLATO Fields and trees are not willing to teach me anything; but this
can be effected by men residing in ...
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PLATO No one ever teaches well who wants to teach, or governs well who wants to govern.
PLATO If women are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach them the same things.
PLATO I think a man's duty is to find out where the truth is, or if he cannot, at least to take the best p...
PLATO To appreciate the beauty of a snow flake, it is necessary to stand out in the cold.
PLATO Even the gods love jokes
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PLATO Abstinence is the surety of temperance
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PLATO The most effective kind of education is that a child should play amongst lovely things.
PLATO I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was capable of reasoning.
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PLATO False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.
PLATO Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body; but knowledge which is acquired under co...
PLATO You should not honor men more than truth.
PLATO The soul of man is immortal and imperishable.
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PLATO The man who makes everything that leads to happiness depends upon himself, and not upon other men, h...
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PLATO Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods.
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PLATO Ignorance of all things is an evil neither terrible nor excessive, nor yet the greatest of all; but ...
PLATO Entire ignorance is not so terrible or extreme an evil, and is far from being the greatest of all; t...
PLATO He who is not a good servant will not be a good master.
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PLATO There are three classes of men; lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain.
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PLATO Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.
PLATO It is clear to everyone that astronomy at all events compels the soul to look upwards, and draws it ...
PLATO Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another.
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PLATO Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.
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