Father Quote by Samuel Smiles

Charles V said that a man who knew four languages was worth four men; and Alexander the Great so valued learning, that he used…

— Thomas Babington Macaulay

“History has been so fascinated with Alexander the Great that it has overlooked the genius of his father. But by his supreme skill at…

— Philip Freeman

“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

Aristotle dines when it seems good to King Philip, but Diogenes when he himself pleases.

— Diogenes

“I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well. { His teacher was the legendary philosopher Aristotle }”

— Alexander the Great

“When Alexander saw the depth of his empire he wept for there were no more worlds to concquer. Benefits of a classical education.”

— Hans Gruber

“If Aristotle and his pupil Alexander the Great were brought back to life today, they would believe themselves in the country of the gods…

— Lev Shestov

“Aristotle, we are invariably told, was "antiquity's most brilliant intellect," and the explanation of this weird assertion, I believe, is best summarized in Anatole…

— Petr Beckmann

The great virtue, I think, of studying Aristotle - and, more importantly, taking him seriously as a possible teacher - is that he presents…

— David Roochnik

“You could give Aristotle a tutorial. And you could thrill him to the core of his being. Aristotle was an encyclopedic polymath, an all…

— Richard Dawkins

“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

Whenever Alexander heard Philip had taken any town of importance, or won any signal victory, instead of rejoicing at it altogether, he would tell…

— Plutarch