Admitting one's ignorance is the first step in acquiring knowledge.

Just as you ought not to attempt to cure eyes without head or head without body, so you should not treat body without soul.

You think that upon the score of fore-knowledge and divining I am infinitely inferior to the swans. When they perceive approaching death they sing more merrily than before, because of the joy they have in going to the God they serve.

If you will take my advice you will think little of Socrates, and a great deal more of truth.

How can you wonder your travels do you no good, when you carry yourself around with you?

The more I know, the more I know that I don't know.

May I consider the wise man rich, and may I have such wealth as only the self-restrained man can bear or endure.