A Socrates in every classroom.

- Alfred Whitney Griswold

In Socrates' thought the two marks of individual self-consciousness appear; it is practical and it is social.

- James Mark Baldwin

When I look around, I begin to understand what Socrates meant when he said, 'How much there is in the world I do not want.'

- Nicolas Roeg

My father was a dreamy fellow - he read Plato and Socrates and watched Phillies games.

- Patti Smith

I conceived 'All Is Song' as a modernised, loosely interpreted version of Socrates's life.

- Samantha Harvey

Socrates, after all, could be an intensely annoying man, all the time questioning passers-by until they became exasperated.

- Samantha Harvey