Top 13 Quotes About Philosopher Kings
#1. Intelligence may indeed be a benign influence creating isolated groups of philosopher-kings far apart in the heavens ... On the other hand, intelligence may be a cancer of purposeless technological exploitation, sweeping across a galaxy as irresistibly as it has swept across our own planet.
Freeman Dyson
#2. Thomas Friedman's 'The World is Flat' sold more copies in India than in the U.K. The market for go-getting business books or wonkish tomes by corporate moguls posing as philosopher kings has grown dramatically in modernising China and India.
Pankaj Mishra
#3. I've always argued that it is just as desirable, just as possible, to have philosopher plumbers as philosopher kings.
Edith Green
#4. Your friend Plato holds that commonwealths will only be happy when either philosophers rule or rulers philosophize: how remote happiness must appear when philosophers won't even deign to share their thoughts with kings.
Thomas More
#5. Don't let anyone tell you that you can't do something. Make your own victories. Make your own mistakes.
Joan Jett
#6. Well, the capacity of French intellectuals to understand a Texan way of thinking is finite.
Henry A. Kissinger
#7. Hercule Poirot addressed himself to the task of keeping his moustaches out of the soup.
Agatha Christie
#8. I feel very blessed to have had the opportunities that have already come. I want to pursue it as long as I can find characters that resonate with me and projects that resonate with me. I feel very comfortable in that world.
Sharlto Copley
#10. The cynic who twitted Aristippus by observing that the philosopher who could dine on herbs might despise the company of a king, was well replied to by Aristippus, when he remarked that the philosopher who could enjoy the company or a king might also despise a dinner of herbs.
Charles Caleb Colton
#12. Nobody does anything better than me in baseball (said before the 1971 World Series).
Roberto Clemente
#13. A State would be happy where philosophers were kings, or kings philosophers.
Plato
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