Great leader Quote by Old Tom Morris

Aristotle and Plato are reckoned the respective heads of two schools. A wise man will see that Aristotle platonizes.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“In one of Plato's seminars a young man with a rural accent stood up one day and said Plato's philosophy was nonsense. You can…

— Norman F. Cantor

“We need both Socrates and Aristotle in the search for knowledge, but in education today there is too much Aristotle and too little Socrates.”

— Gregory J.E. Rawlins

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

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

— Plutarch

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

Both Socrates and Jesus were outstanding teachers; both of them urged and practiced great simplicity of life; both were regarded as traitors to the…

— Jaroslav Pelikan

Aristotle was by far a less able thinker than Plato ... he was completely overwhelmed by Plato.

— Wolfgang Pauli

Socrates... Whom well inspir'd the oracle pronounc'd Wisest of men.

— John Milton

I collected men with interesting names. I already knew a Socrates. He was tall and ugly and intellectual and the son of some big…

— Sylvia Plath

Alexander the Great valued learning so highly, that he used to say he was more indebted to Aristotle for giving him knowledge than to…

— Samuel Smiles

In all the good Greek of Plato I lack my roastbeef and potato. A better man was Aristotle, Pulling steady on the bottle.

— John Crowe Ransom