Men of Athens, I honor and love you; but I shall obey God rather than you, and while I have life and strength I shall never cease from the practice and teaching of philosophy.

I know you won't believe me, but the highest form of Human Excellence is to question oneself and others.

Who knows if to live is to be dead, and to be dead, to live? And we really, it may be, are dead; in fact I once heard sages say that we are now dead, and the body is our tomb.

I only know how little I know

My divine sign indicates the future to me.

Think not those faithful who praise all thy words and actions, but those who kindly reprove thy faults.

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.