The alphabet will create forgetfulness in the learners' souls. They will trust the written characters and not remember themselves.

If I had engaged in politics, O men of Athens, I should have perished long ago, and done no good either to you or to myself.

Wonder is the beginning of all wisdom.

True wisdom lies in one's confession about the limits of one's knowledge.

No one can teach, if by teaching we mean the transmission of knowledge, in any mechanical fashion, from one person to another. The most that can be done is that one person who is more knowledgeable than another can, by asking a series of questions, stimulate the other to think, and so cause him to learn for himself.

There are a great many of these accusers, and they have been accusing me now for a great many years, and what is more, they approached you at the most impressionable age, when some of you were children or adolescents; and literally won their case by default, because there was no one to defend me.

Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others.