...one thing I am ready to fight for as long as I can, in word and act: that is, that we shall be better, braver and more active men if we believe it right to look for what we don't know than if we believe there is no point in looking because what we don't know we can never discover.

Not by wisdom do they [poets] make what they compose, but by a gift of nature and an inspiration similar to that of the diviners and the oracles.

He said that there was one only good, namely, knowledge; and one only evil, namely, ignorance.

Athletics have become professionalized.

To them, I said, the truth would be literally nothing but the shadows of the images.

I know that I know nothing.

If he who does not know kept silent, discord would cease.