Socrates

It is better to be a human being dissatisfied than a pig satisfied; better to be Socrates dissatisfied than a fool satisfied.

—Mill,John Stuart

The wisest of you men is he who has realized, like Socrates, that in respect of wisdom he is really worthless.

—Plato

While Socrates empties the cup of poison with unshaken soul,Christ exclaims,'If it is possible, let this cup pass from me'.Christ in this respect is the self- confession of human sensibility.

—Feuerbach, Ludwig

A Socrates in every classroom.

—Griswold, Alfred Whitney

Socrates isguilty of corrupting the minds of the young, and of believing indeities of his own invention instead of the gods recognized by the state.

—Plato