Fitness Quote by Bettany Hughes

It's no disgrace to be a private, you know. Socrates was a plain foot soldier, a hoplite.

— Saul Bellow

“Did you hear the story of Socrates? He was a philosopher in ancient Greece, so they killed him.”

— Troy DeNuthe

So Socrates was a kind of gadfly. He was a sort of philosophical urban gorilla hanging around in the middle of Athens, asking these…

— Rebecca Goldstein

“Socrates (770-399 B.C.[E.]) is possibly the most enigmatic figure in the entire history of philosophy. He never wrote a single line. Yet he is…

— Jostein Gaarder

Socrates' fame spread all over Greece, and the most respected and educated men from all around came to him, in order to enjoy his…

— Moses Mendelssohn

Socrates was a philosopher. He went around pointing out errors in the way things were done. They fed him hemlock.

— Gil Amelio

I admire the courage and wisdom of Socrates in everything he did, said--and did not say.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to learn music and dancing, and…

— Michel de Montaigne

“We know so little about Socrates but somehow we still remember he existed; more amazing yet, is how the meaning of ethics has completely…

— Alejandro C. Estrada

Socrates said he was not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world.

— Plutarch

Socrates, who was a perfect model in all great qualities, ... hit on a body and face so ugly and so incongruous with the…

— Michel de Montaigne

Socrates ... brought human wisdom back down from heaven, where she was wasting her time, and restored her to man.... It is impossible to…

— Michel de Montaigne