Quote Interpretations - The Socratic Method

David Herbert Lawrence: 'There is no such thing as liberty. You only change one sort of domination for another. All we can do is to choose our master.'

Plato: 'Democracy... is a charming form of government, full of variety and disorder and dispensing a sort of equality to equals and unequals alike.'

June Allyson: 'I'd just as soon stay home and raise babies.'

Ajay Naidu: 'Rap is rhythm and poetry. Hip-hop is storytelling and poetry as well.'

James Thurber: 'The most dangerous food is wedding cake.'

George Herbert: 'Be calm in arguing for fierceness makes error a fault, and truth discourtesy.'

George Orwell: 'On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.'

Graham Greene: 'Success is more dangerous than failure, the ripples break over a wider coastline.'

Katharine Hepburn: 'Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get - only with what you are expecting to give - which is everything.'

Albert Einstein: 'Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.'

Rose Kennedy: 'Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments.'

Cat Deeley: 'I think that if you keep your eyes and your ears open and you are receptive to learning, there are skills you can get from any job at all.'

Jim Rohn: 'Affirmation without discipline is the beginning of delusion.'

William James: 'A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.'

Mitch Hedberg: 'I wanted to buy a candle holder, but the store didn't have one. So I got a cake.'

Julie Doucet: 'I took my courage in both hands and went to the Laundromat to do my washing. I had to use three machines.'

Will Rogers: 'I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts.'

Doug Larson: 'Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred to talk.'

Joyce Grenfell: 'There is no such thing as the pursuit of happiness, but there is the discovery of joy.'

Hunter S. Thompson: 'The person who doesn't scatter the morning dew will not comb gray hairs.'