#ear

All the gold which is under or upon the earth is not enough to give in exchange for virtue. ↗

— Plato

#enough #exchange #give #gold #under

Entire ignorance is not so terrible or extreme an evil, and is far from being the greatest of all; too much cleverness and too much learning, accompanied with ill bringing-up, are far more fatal. ↗

— Plato

#being #cleverness #entire #evil #extreme

The learning and knowledge that we have, is, at the most, but little compared with that of which we are ignorant. ↗

— Plato

#ignorant #knowledge #learning #little #most

Courage is knowing what not to fear. ↗

— Plato

#fear #knowing

We ought to fly away from earth to heaven as quickly as we can; and to fly away is to become like God, as far as this is possible; and to become like him is to become holy, just, and wise. ↗

— Plato

#away #become #earth #far #fly

Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history. ↗

— Plato

#history #nearer #than #truth #vital

Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability. ↗

— Plautus

#attained #wisdom #years

I just want to be clear, I am a very dark and bitter person, but I think on some level, everything really does come when it's meant to come. ↗

— Martha Plimpton

#bitter #clear #come #dark #does

I've often said in the past that I thought MTV was sort of evil incarnate and signified the beginning of the end. And I don't know if I'm entirely wrong about that, but they did sign my paychecks a year ago, so I guess I'm part of the problem. ↗

— Martha Plimpton

#ago #beginning #did #end #entirely

Christopher Nolan's astounding third Batman feature, 'The Dark Knight Rises,' represents the true maturation of the superhero movie - and provides the key to understanding the bottomless craving moviegoers have for these films, 34 years after the Christopher Reeve Superman gave birth to the genre. ↗

— John Podhoretz

#astounding #batman #birth #bottomless #christopher