"Knowing thyself is the height of wisdom."

-- Socrates

#Knowing Quotes #Height Quotes #Thyself Quotes

“It is better to be wise, and not to seem so, than to seem wise, and not be so; yet men, for the most part, desire the contrary.”
“What we're really trying to tell, even though it's very much a genre show, is a very human story. Even in this heightened situation, it still comes down to people being people, and dealing with people as people. It really is about the seven people in that town.”
“Your friends avoid you, brutishly transform'd They hardly know you, or if one remains To wish you well, he wishes you in heaven.”

Source : John Armstrong, John Dyer (1858). “The Poetical Works of Armstrong, Dyer, and Green: With Memoirs, and Critical Dissertations”, p.56
“You only get a second to score a goal in football. In Wolves' case it was 20 seconds”
“The secret of your future is hidden in your daily routine.”

Source : FaceBook post by Dr. Mike Murdock from Dec 29, 2016
“I suspect this is all gonna end in screaming and drowning”

Source : Scott Lynch (2007). “Red Seas Under Red Skies”, p.209, Del Rey
“For the consumer, fashion is fashion. You can buy something beautiful for $20 and you can buy something ugly for $1,000. It comes down to style. As far as the industry as a whole, it is hard to say. I don't like to separate the worlds.”
“We do need knowledge. And perhaps in a thousand years we might pick smaller cliffs to jump off. The books are to remind us what ***** and fools we are.”

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