The difficulty, my friends, is not in avoiding death, but in avoiding unrighteousness; for that runs faster than death.
SocratesThink not those faithful who praise all thy words and actions, but those who kindly reprove thy faults.
SocratesWhere 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.
SocratesThe Spirit is neither good nor bad, it runs where the wild heart leads" "Wisdom begins in wonder.
SocratesNo 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.
Socrates