Belief Quote by Noam Chomsky

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

— Gil Amelio

Socrates isguilty of corrupting the minds of the young, and of believing indeities of his own invention instead of the gods recognized by the…

— Plato

I was thinking of the immortal words of Socrates when he said...I drank what?

— Anonymous

“Self-realization. I was thinking of the immortal words of Socrates, who said, 'I drank what?'...”

— Neal Israel - Chris Knight from Real Genius

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

Which is recorded of Socrates, that he was able both to abstain from, and to enjoy, those things which many are too weak to…

— Marcus Aurelius

“There were two types of drinkers: those who drank to enhance their personalities, and those who sought to rid themselves of something.”

— Haruki Murakami

“Plato forbids children wine till eighteen years of age, and to get drunk till forty; but, after forty, gives them leave to please themselves,…

— Michel de Montaigne

So then there was the Greek, Socrates, he was great... He invented questioning. Before Socrates, no questioning. Everyone sort of went, ''Yeah, I suppose…

— Eddie Izzard

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

— Plato

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

I think Socrates was fascinated by Alcibiades. It's almost the opposite of hypocrisy. I think it's like when you can see the potential in…

— Bettany Hughes