Communication Quote by Karen Armstrong

“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

“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

“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

“every situation, knowledge was better than ignorance. However agonizing, it was necessary to confront the facts. Only through knowing could a person become strong.”

— Haruki Murakami

“Moreover, he felt vaguely that what he called his convictions were not only ignorance but were a way of thinking that made the knowledge…

— Leo Tolstoy

“In 80% of Socrates' dialogues there was no constructive outcome. He saw his role as simply pointing out what was "wrong.”

— Edward De Bono

“We may talk lightly but never carelessly. We keep at bay the flow of common, ignorant thought which runs its damaging course through the…

— Donna Goddard

“It was an ignorant perception of the past at which most scoffed, but those who were wiser simply shook their heads in embarrassment knowing…

— Sean DeLauder

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

— Francis Mont

“Was the whole matter of aptitudes a myth – a copout used by people like me to avoid subjects that would force us to…

— William Zinsser

“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

“Many things we do naturally become difficult only when we try to make them intellectual subjects. It is possible to know so much about…

— Frank Herbert