Socrates Quotes
169 Socrates quotes by 131 unique authors
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The world's a puzzle; no need to make sense out of it." - Socrates
— Dan Millman
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Just as Socrates felt that it was necessary to create a tension in the mind so that individuals could rise from the bondage of myths…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Socrates: So even our walks are dangerous here. But you seem to have avoided the most dangerous thing of all. Bertha: What's that? Socrates: Philosophy.…
— Peter Kreeft
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One quality in a person doesn't rule out any other quality. They can exist side by side, good and terrible. Socrates said it a lot…
— Thomas Harris
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So then there was the Greek, Socrates, he was great... He invented questioning. Before Socrates, no questioning. Everyone sort of went, ''Yeah, I suppose so.
— Eddie Izzard
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All men are mortal. Socrates was mortal. Therefore, all men are Socrates.
— Woody Allen
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Socrates said he was not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world.
— Plutarch
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Evolution is the law of policies: Darwin said it, Socrates endorsed it, Cuvier proved it and established it for all time in his paper on…
— Mark Twain
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My hero Socrates trained Plato on a rock. How much did that cost? So the greatest minds in history became the greatest minds in history…
— Dave Brat
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A library, to modify the famous metaphor of Socrates, should be the delivery room for the birth of ideas - a place where history comes…
— Norman Cousins
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Wherever magistrates were appointed from among those who complied with the injunctions of the laws, Socrates considered the government to be an aristocracy.
— Xenophon
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God was alive when this universe exploded into existence. He was alive when Socrates drank his poison. He was the living God when William Bradford…
— John Piper
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Socrates, you will remember, asked all the important questions - but he never answered any of them
— Unknown Author
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Being asked whether it's better to marry or not, he (Socrates) replied, Whichever you do you will repent it
— Diogenes
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I have no clue what Plato was talking about when he said that the unexamined wife was not worth leaving. I don't even know whose…
— Rock Cowles
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Socrates was killed by his own people. He was! [Nods head]. Coz he questioned everything When is a house a house? Just chill-out will you?…
— Eddie Izzard
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Know Thyself SOCRATES
— Unknown Author
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It is only possible to succeed at second-rate pursuitslikebecoming a millionaire or a prime minister, winning a war, seducing beautiful women, flying thought the stratosphere…
— Malcolm Muggeridge
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— Inspectah Deck
Who Wrote These Socrates Quotes
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