Men Quote by Plato

The wisest of you men is he who has realized, like Socrates, that in respect of wisdom he is really worthless.

— Plato

When I look upon seamen, men of science and philosophers, man is the wisest of all beings; when I look upon priests and prophets…

— Diogenes

He, O men, is the wisest, who, like Socrates, knows that his wisdom is in truth worth nothing.

— Plato

Every human being has, like Socrates, an attendant spirit; and wise are they who obey its signals. If it does not always tell us…

— Lydia M. Child

There have been summits of civilization at which heretics like Socrates , who was killed because he was wiser than his neighbors, have not…

— George Bernard Shaw

“Everybody becomes wise when the moment is gone. Retrospective wisdom is worthless. When you are picking on something, at that very moment become aware,…

— Osho

All of us cherish our beliefs. They are, to a degree, self-defining. When someone comes along who challenges our belief system as insufficiently well-based…

— Carl Sagan

I will admit, like Socrates and Aristotle and Plato and some other philosophers, that there are instances where the death penalty would seem appropriate.

— Jack Kevorkian

The faithful witness, like...Socrates, Voltaire, and Swift and Christ himself, is at his best when he is questioning and clarifying and avoiding the specialists…

— John Ralston Saul

“I now know from voracious reading and tireless research that most of my favorite quotes are just paraphrases from ancient philosophers like Socrates, Aristotle,…

— Jeff Burden

Socrates thought and so do I that the wisest theory about the gods is no theory at all.

— Michel de Montaigne

Apollo at Delphi, through the oracular utterance of his priestess, pronounced Socrates the wisest of men. Of him it is related that he said…

— Marcus Vitruvius Pollio