Socrates

"I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think"

"The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing."

"Are you not ashamed of caring so much for the making of money and for fame and prestige, when you neither think nor care about wisdom and truth and the improvement of your soul?"

"Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm and constant."

"Are you not ashamed of caring so much for the making of money and for fame and prestige, when you neither think nor care about wisdom and truth and the improvement of your soul?"

"The greatest blessing granted to mankind come by way of madness, which is a divine gift."

"The greatest blessing granted to mankind come by way of madness, which is a divine gift."

"God takes away the minds of poets, and uses them as his ministers, as he also uses diviners and holy prophets, in order that we who hear them may know them to be speaking not of themselves who utter these priceless words in a state of unconsciousness, but that God himself is the speaker, and that through them he is conversing with us."

"The greatest blessing granted to mankind come by way of madness, which is a divine gift."

"The unexamined life is not worth living."

"He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature."

"There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance."

"The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms."

"Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for."

"If a man comes to the door of poetry untouched by the madness of the Muses, believing that technique alone will make him a good poet, he and his sane compositions never reach perfection, but are utterly eclipsed by the performances of the inspired madman."

"Beware the barrenness of a busy life."

"The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing."

"The unexamined life is not worth living."

"For the poet is a light and winged and holy thing, and there is no invention in him until he has been inspired and is out of his senses, and the mind is no longer in him: when he has not attained to this state, he is powerless and is unable to utter his oracles."

"Wonder is the beginning of wisdom."