Athens Quote by Socrates Download Open image “I am a citizen, not of Athens, or Greece, but of the world.” — Socrates ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.4 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Athens Athens Greece Citizen Citizen Athens Citizens Citizenship Greece Greece World Passport Politics World
“I am not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world." [As quoted in Plutarch's Of Banishment ]” — Socrates Copy Share Image
I've lived many places all over the world, so I've always seen myself as a citizen of the world. — Trevor Noah Copy Share Image
If I was a Greek citizen I'd be out there trying to bring down this monstrosity that has been put upon those people. — Nigel Farage Copy Share Image
Socrates said he was not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world. — Plutarch Copy Share Image
I am a citizen of the world, known to all and to all a stranger. — Desiderius Erasmus Copy Share Image
We are all Greeks. Our laws, our literature, our religion, our arts, have their root in Greece. — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
I will always be upfront with the Greek people, so we can solve the country's problems together. — George Papandreou Copy Share Image
By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher. — Socrates Copy Share Image
Falling down is not a failure. Failure comes when you stay where you have fallen. — Socrates Copy Share Image
Do not go through life like leaf blown from here to there believing whatever you are told. — Socrates Copy Share Image
If the whole world depends on today's youth, I can't see the world lasting another 100 years. — Socrates Copy Share Image
If measure and symmetry are absent from any composition in any degree, ruin awaits both the ingredients and the composition... Measure and symmetry are… — Socrates Copy Share Image
Marry a good woman, and be happy the rest of your life. Or, marry a bad, and become a good philosopher — Socrates Copy Share Image
“For the fear of death is indeed the pretense of wisdom, and not real wisdom, being a pretense of knowing the unknown; and no… — Socrates Copy Share Image
There is no difference between knowledge and temperance; for he who knows what is good and embraces it, who knows what is bad and… — Socrates Copy Share Image
Besides, it is a shame to let yourself grow old through neglect before seeing how you can develop the maximum beauty and strength of… — Socrates Copy Share Image
The greatest blessing granted to mankind come by way of madness, which is a divine gift. — Socrates Copy Share Image
The Parthenon is really only a farmyard over which someone put a roof; colonades and sculptures were added because there were people in Athens… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
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Homer, Hesiod, Pythagoras, Plato, and Cicero, just to name a few, all lived in pagan societies. Some of the greatest political and military leaders… — Brendan Myers Copy Share Image
Athens, much like Austin, is a difficult music scene. There are so many musicians there that it is hard to get gigs and hard… — Corey Smith Copy Share Image
The sophists were as a rule men who had traveled widely and seen different forms of government. Both conventions and local laws in the… — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
You look around the world at geniuses, and they don't appear randomly, they appear in genius clusters. Athens in 50 BC, Florence 1500, Silicon… — Eric Weiner Copy Share Image
Misgovernment is of four kinds, often in combination. They are: 1) tyranny or oppression, of which history provides so many well-known examples that they… — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
Athens will again be the host of the Games in 2004, but there are rumors that they might be switched if the Greeks don't… — Bill Toomey Copy Share Image
“South of Larissa the landscape began to change. Jude watched an irrigation machine like a giant stick insect creeping over a field, and a… — Paul Alkazraji Copy Share Image
I said it before we arrived in Athens, that we wanted to prove to the world that our bronze medal in Sweden was not… — Gianluca Basile Copy Share Image
In the infancy of civilization, when our island was as savage as New Guinea, when letters and arts were still unknown to Athens, when… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
I always look back to my first Olympic medal in 2004 in Athens. I was very new to the sport, and it was my… — Allyson Felix Copy Share Image