Communication Quote by Edward De Bono

“Philosophy had supplied Socrates with convictions in which he had been able to have rational, as opposed to hysterical, confidence when faced with disapproval.…

— Alain de Botton

“To Socrates, an individual’s actions were directly related to his intelligence and ignorance. He believed people should develop their self, rather than concentrate on…

— Paul Kleinman

“dialogue led participants not to certainty but to a shocking realization of the profundity of human ignorance. However carefully, logically, and rationally Socrates and…

— Karen Armstrong

“Socrates based his ethical values on logical reasoning, rather than theological beliefs, which ultimately led to his death. He”

— Paxton Casmiro

“Socrates made people face their hypocrisy. He had to die.”

— Francis Mont

He could very likely have appealed for leniency. At least he could have saved his life by agreeing to leave Athens. But had he…

— Jostein Gaarder

“The Socratic dialogue was a spiritual exercise designed to produce a profound psychological change in the participants, and because its purpose was that each…

— Karen Armstrong

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

— Gil Amelio

Socrates is not just expounding noble ideas in a vacuum. He is in the middle of a war between those who think truth is…

— Robert M. Pirsig

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

— Plato

“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

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche