"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 would have you know that, if you kill such a one as I am, you will injure yourselves more than you will injure me. Meletus and Anytus will not injure me: they cannot; for it is not in the nature of …"

"Wisdom begins in wonder."

"Knowledge is the only virtue, because once a man knows good from evil, nothing on earth can compel him to act against that knowledge."

"Wonder is the beginning of wisdom."