"Only Socrates knew, after a lifetime of unceasing labor, that he was ignorant. Now every high-school student knows that. How did it become so easy?"

-- Allan Bloom

#School Quotes #Ignorant Quotes #Students Quotes

“I have very fond memories of the 80s; they were very formative years for me. I certainly remember the Cold War. It was a closer doorstep for the Brits than the Americans, so it was a very real and palpable threat at the time.”
“To live without history is to live like an infant, constantly amazed and challenged by a strange and unnamed world.”
“What is death, after all? We leave only mortals behind us.”
“Film scores are often based on short themes, and it helps if youve got some way of developing these themes and making them sometimes last 4 minutes and sometimes last 40 seconds. One ends up doing it subconsciously.”
“The great secret of doctors, known only to their wives, but still hidden from the public, is that most things get better by themselves; most things, in fact, are better in the morning.”
“Sure I'm for helping the elderly. I'm going to be old myself some day.”
“Forgiveness leads to a shift in perception. It transforms the hurt into healing.”
“Robert E. Lee Prewitt. Isn't that a silly old name.”

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