Learning Socrates Quotes

#1. Captivity is the greatest of all evils that can befall one.

Miguel De Cervantes

#2. Grace does not destroy nature, it perfects it.

Thomas Aquinas

#3. If you live as if you know nothing you offer yourself the opportunity to learn everything.

Kay Whitley

#4. Bob Hope, like Mark Twain, had a sense of humor that was uniquely American, and like Twain, we'll likely not see another like him.

Dick Van Dyke

#5. How many things can I do without?

Socrates

#6. 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 them.

Plato

#7. Whatever authority I may have rests solely on knowing how little I know.

Socrates

#8. Behold, he said, the wisdom of Socrates; he refuses to teach himself, and goes about learning of others, to whom he never even says Thank you.

Plato

#9. There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.

Michel De Montaigne

#10. In the Western tradition, we have focused on teaching as a skill and forgotten what Socrates knew: teaching is a gift, learning is a skill.

Peter Drucker

#11. There is a budding morrow in midnight.

John Keats

#12. We think if we choose to do only good, then we are only good.

Marissa Meyer

#13. 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

#14. Socrates asks him the crucial question about education, and that is, If you study with this fellow, what will he make of you?

Leroy S Rouner

#15. The soul then, as being immortal, and having been born again many times, and having seen all things that exist, whether in this world or in the world below, has knowledge of them all ... all enquiry and all learning is but recollection.

Socrates

#16. There is no learning without remembering.

Socrates

#17. I will quote Cioran (who is not yet a classic but will become one): "While they were preparing the hemlock, Socrates was learning a tune on the flute. 'What good will it do you,' they asked, 'to know this tune before you die?

Italo Calvino

#18. Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.

Socrates