Socrates

The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.

As for me, all I know is that I know nothing.

I know that I know nothing.

It is better to suffer wrong than to do wrong.

Bad men live that they may eat and drink, whereas good men eat and drink that they may live.

Be slow to fall into friendship, but when you are in, remain firm and constant.

I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.

I only wish that wisdom were such a thing as flowed from the fuller to the emptier man, as water does from a full cup to an empty one when we a thread between them.

I am a gadfly who God has attached to the state, and all day long and in all places am always fastening upon you, arousing and persuading and reproaching all of you.

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

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

I would rather die having spoken after my manner, than speak in your manner and live.

The nearest way to glory is to strive to be what you desire to be thought to be.

As for me, all I know is that I know nothing, for when I think I know something, I discover that I had no idea about it.

I am not at all a politician.

Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.

If a man is proud of his wealth, he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.

Contentment is natural wealth.

The more I know, the more I realize I know nothing.

I am called wise, for my hearers always imagine that I myself possess the wisdom which I find wanting in others.