Quote by Paul Kleinman

“There you have Socrates’ wisdom; [b] he himself isn’t willing to teach, but he goes around learning from others and isn’t even grateful to…

— Plato

“It takes a special kind of humility to grasp that you know less, even as you know and grasp more and more. It’s remembering…

— Ryan Holiday

Of all parts of wisdom, the practice is the best. Socrates was esteemed the wisest man of his time because he turned his acquired…

— John Tillotson

Socrates' way of life is the consequence of his recognition that we can know what it is that we do not know about the…

— Allan Bloom

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

“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

Socrates and Plato are right: whatever man does he always does well, that is, he does that which seems to him good (useful) according…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Socrates gave a lifetime to the outpouring of his substance in the shape of the greatest benefits bestowed on all who cared to receive…

— Xenophon

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

— Edward De Bono

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“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

That man is wisest who, like Socrates, realizes that his wisdom is worthless

— Plato