Only the knowledge that comes from inside is the real Knowledge

Well I am certainly wiser than this man. It is only too likely that neither of us has any knowledge to boast of; but he thinks that he knows something which he does not know, whereas I am quite conscious of my ignorance. At any rate it seems that I am wiser than he is to this small extent, that I do not think that I know what I do not know.

Where there is reverence there is fear, but there is not reverence everywhere that there is fear, because fear presumably has a wider extension than reverence.

He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.

In every sort of danger there are various ways of winning through, if one is ready to do and say anything whatever.

Virtue is the beauty of the soul.

To know, is to know that you know nothing.