Gorgias Philosophy Quotes

#1. I was half asleep but I smiled. In spite of all his irritating qualities, I couldn't help liking a man who despised a fictional character with such passion.

David Benioff

#2. Men who neglect philosophy while busying themselves with ordinary affairs are like the Suitors [in the Odyssey] who desired Penelope but went to bed with her maids.

Gorgias

#3. I like being able to walk or ride my bike to restaurants and do different things.

Andrew Luck

#4. The only thing that stops the fear of doing something is DOING WHAT YOU FEAR

Steven Aitchison

#5. Let me not fear pain; let me have the power to tolerate it.

Debasish Mridha

#6. Analogy and probability are not bedrock; they are lifeboats in an ocean of doubt, and sometimes they founder. So rhetoric tends to the passionate:we argue, not with surety, but as the shipwrecked clinging to the only thing they have.

Andrew J. Patrick

#7. Hey, don't stick that tongue out, unless you're gonna use it..

David Lee

#8. An amateur is someone who supports himself with outside jobs which enable him to paint. A professional is someone whose wife works to enable him to paint.

Ben Shahn

#9. Ever since there's been a Hollywood, they remake a movie every 20 years.

Julianne Moore

#10. It is far better to appreciate and not to possess, than to possess and not to appreciate.

Lilian Whiting

#11. Art begins ... when someone interprets, when someone sees the world through his own eyes. Art happens when what is seen becomes mixed with the inside of the person who is seeing it.

Chaim Potok

#12. Race and gender definitely came up, occasionally, in my life at work. But the bigger challenge that I had was age. I took roles earlier in my career than people expected, and so a lot of what I got was, 'Do you actually know enough to do this?'

Ursula Burns

#13. I believe it was Gorgias who was first to posit the impossibility of ever prooving anything - in which case, it might as well have been me to first propose this idea, just now.

Dan Garfat-Pratt

#14. I got pregnant at 40 by surprise. It's funny, because when we found out we were pregnant, I said, 'Okay, let's experience that.' You just have to just go with it because it's rare.

Julianna Margulies

#15. Life is like a confused teacher ... first she gives the test and then teaches the lesson

Drake