Art Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

If someone separated the art of counting and measuring and weighing from all the other arts, what was left of each (of the others)…

— Plato

He that measures not himselfe, is measured.

— George Herbert

“How do you measure someone’s life? By the scope of their accomplishments, or the number of people they’ve touched, or by the width of…

— Yvonne Woon

A Socrates in every classroom.

— Alfred Whitney Griswold

Had every Athenian citizen been a Socrates, every Athenian assembly would still have been a mob.

— James Madison

“…Not that it was unjust; not that the scales were forced out of balance. Where there had been good, it showed as clearly. Kindnesses,…

— Richard Matheson

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

— Plato

“It might seem that the empirical philosopher is the slave of his material, but that the pure mathematician, like the musician, is a free…

— Bertrand Russell

“Everyone has their own varying means of measuring thing. Sometimes people can agree on something, but other times they can't.”

— ichtys

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

— 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

“the aging and grumpy Plato, in Book VII of the Laws, gave his definition of scientific illiteracy: Who is unable to count one, two,…

— Carl Sagan