Socrates

“Theaetetus , 161b”

“ἐγὼ δὲ οὐδὲν ἐπίσταμαι πλέον πλὴν βραχέος, ὅσον λόγον παρ᾽ ἑτέρου σοφοῦ λαβεῖν καὶ ἀποδέξασθαι μετρίως. I myself know nothing, except just a little, enough to extract an argument from another man who is wise and to receive it fairly.”

“Wonder is the feeling of a philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder. Theaetetus , 155d”

“Nothing is to be preferred before justice”

“Has a philosopher like you failed to discover that our country is more to be valued and higher and holier far than mother or father or any ancestor, and more to be regarded in the eyes of the gods and of men of understanding? Crito”

“One should never do wrong in return, nor mistreat any man, no matter how one has been mistreated by him. Plato, Crito 49c”

“Oh dear Pan and all the other gods of this place, grant that I may be beautiful inside. Let all my external possessions be in friendly harmony with what is within. May I consider the wise man rich. As for gold, let me have as much as a moderate man could bear and carry with him. Socrates' prayer, Phaedrus , 279”

“In every one of us there are two ruling and directing principles, whose guidance we follow wherever they may lead; the one being an innate desire of pleasure; the other, an acquired judgment which aspires after excellence. Phaedrus”

“It would be better for me... that multitudes of men should disagree with me rather than that I, being one, should be out of harmony with myself. Gorgias , 482c”

“I only wish that wisdom were the kind of thing that flowed ... from the vessel that was full to the one that was empty. Plato , Symposium , 175d”