Citizens Quote by Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

— Plutarch

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

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

The world's a puzzle; no need to make sense out of it." - Socrates

— Dan Millman

“Man must rise above the Earth—to the top of the atmosphere and beyond—for only thus will he fully understand the world in which he…

— Adrienne Woods

“I am not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world." [As quoted in Plutarch's Of Banishment ]”

— Socrates

“He is only a philosopher in the manner of Socrates, whom he revered above all others because he left behind no dogma, no teachings,…

— Stefan Zweig

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

“Question for your life: If Socrates had a clone, would he advise that clone to know thy self, or to know myself, with myself…

— Jarod Kintz

“He began to have a dim feeling that, to attain his place in the world, he must be himself, and not another.”

— W.E.B. Du Bois

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

— Troy DeNuthe

World' is a large term, but man must enlarge his allegiance, considering himself in the light of a world citizen... A person who truly…

— Paramahansa Yogananda