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Socrates gave no diplomas or degrees, and would have subjected any disciple who demanded one to a disconcerting catechism on the nature of true…

— G. M. Trevelyan

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

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

“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

We have no proof that Socrates ever existed. We only know from witnesses to his life that he did. Like Jesus, he never wrote…

— Christopher Hitchens

A philosopher knows that in reality he knows very little. That is why he constantly strives to achieve true insight. Socrates was one of…

— Jostein Gaarder

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

“Before Socrates, philosophers were primarily interested in explaining the world around them and the phenomena of that world—in doing what we would now call…

— William B. Irvine

“One might wonder how on earth learning came to be seen primarily a result of teaching. Until quite recently, the world’s great teachers were…

— Russell L. Ackoff

Socrates ... is the first philosopher of life [Lebensphilosoph], ... Thinking serves life, while among all previous philosophers life had served thought and knowledge.…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

As a Roman philosopher, Cicero, said of him a few hundred years later, Socrates 'called philosophy down from the sky and established her in…

— Jostein Gaarder

If Socrates died like a philosopher, Jesus Christ died like a God.

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau