Greek Quote by Eddie Izzard

Socrates, you will remember, asked all the important questions - but he never answered any of them

— Dickinson Richards

Socrates worked towards making people question themselves. He like to provoke self-interrogation but wasn't particularly interested in the answers that emerged; he just like…

— Eric Cantona

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

We have no proof that Socrates ever existed. We only know from witnesses to his life that he did. Like Jesus, he never wrote…

— Christopher Hitchens

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

— Troy DeNuthe

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

All I would ask you to be thinking of is the truth and not Socrates.

— Plato

It was modesty that invented the word "philosopher" in Greece and left the magnificent overweening presumption in calling oneselfwise to the actors of the…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The Sophists' paradoxical talk pieces and their public debates were entertainment in 5th century Greece. And in that world, Socrates was an entertainer.

— David Antin

Socrates was the first to call philosophy down from the heavens and to place it in cities, and even to introduce it into homes…

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

“It is extraordinary to think about. We still speak of Socratic or Platonic philosophy, but actually being Plato or Socrates is quite another matter.”

— Jostein Gaarder

Do you guys like impressions? "Why?" That was Socrates.

— Bo Burnham