Socrates Gadfly Quotes

#1. I am often asked why I write, and I don't know really
I just want to.

John Ashbery

#2. When everything is in its right place within us, we ourselves are in balance with the whole work of God.

Henri Frederic Amiel

#3. Love is the strongest force there is. There is no stronger healing power than love. Love is pure magic. Love transforms people without really does anything. The mere presence of love transforms people. There is nothing more holy than love since love makes people whole.

Swami Dhyan Giten

#4. You're the dumbest smart person i know, you're the dumbest dumb person i know

Will Smith

#5. My dad lived till he was 78, my mum was in her 80s, and I've got two uncles who are in their 90s now.

Ron Wood

#6. In one sense the drinker learns wisdom, in the words of Goethe or Blake or whichever it was "The pathway to wisdom lies through excess" (p. 113)

Jack Kerouac

#7. You can only write what you know if you've lived, otherwise, you'll just be writing words.

Joseph Eastwood

#8. Obedience is a part of greatness.

Mark E. Petersen

#9. A man doesn't like to have his ego popped, especially when he prides himself on his sagacity, and then to be proved wrong by a man who claims he doesn't know anything.

E.A. Bucchianeri

#10. For me the top music though has to be Rock or Hip Hop and artists like Kanye West.

Steve Purdy

#11. Read Between The Lies Of History: Research & Destroy

Dean Cavanagh

#12. To predict the future we would have to know today what we will learn tomorrow which will shape our future actions

Douglass North

#13. The reason people don't buy conspiracy theories is they think 'conspiracy' means everybody's on the same program. That's not how it works. Everybody's got a different program. They just all want the same guy dead. Socrates was a gadfly, but I bet he took time out to screw somebody's wife.

James Lee Burke

#14. Failure to recognize the power of words in conveying difficult information diminishes opportunities for growth and move people away from rather than toward good resolutions.

Carolyn Stone

#15. Fear is a wet blanket that smothers the fiery passion God deposited in your heart when he formed you. Fear freezes us into inaction. Frozen ideas, frozen souls, frozen bodies can't move, can't dream, can't risk, can't love, and can't live. Fear chains us.

Stasi Eldredge

#16. Athens is like a sluggish horse, and I am the gadfly trying to sting it into life.

Jostein Gaarder

#17. We drove past a small church, and the congregation had abandoned the building to stand outside in a circle with their heads bowed, maybe hoping their prayers would get a better signal on the lawn.

Heaven has notoriously bad reception.

Atom Yang