“And Agathon said, It is probable, Socrates, that I knew nothing of what I had said.

“What a strange thing that which men call pleasure seems to be, and how astonishing the relation it has with what is thought to be its opposite, namely pain! A man cannot have both at the same time. Yet if he pursues and catches the one, he is almost always bound to catch the other also, like two creatures with one head.” 

“Everything that deceives may be said to enchant.” 

“Excess of liberty, whether it lies in state or individuals, seems only to pass into excess of slavery.” 

“Wise men talk because they have something to say; Fools, because they have to say something.” 

“I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was capable of reasoning.” 

“Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another.” 

“He was a wise man who invented God.” 

“Either we shall find what it is we are seeking or at least we shall free ourselves from the persuasion that we know what we do not know.” 

“The soul takes flight to the world that is invisible but there arriving she is sure of bliss and forever dwells in paradise.” 

The important thing is not what they think of me, but what I think of them.

“I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.” 

“Wise men speak because they have something to say; fools because they have to say something.” 

“What though the radiance that was once so bright, be now forever taken from my sight. Though nothing can bring back the hour of splendor in the grass, of glory in the flower; We will grieve not, rather find strength in what remains behind.” 

“I have felt a presence that disturbs me with the joy of elevated thoughts; a sense sublime of something far more deeply interfused, whose dwelling is the light of setting suns, and the round ocean, and the living air, and the blue sky, and in the mind of man...” 

"“Wisdom is oft-times nearer when we stoop Than when we soar.”"

“The mind of man is a thousand times more beautiful than the earth on which he dwells.” 

“A mind forever Voyaging through strange seas of Thought, alone.” 

I think I've got wiser.

The only possible effect one can have on the world is through unpopular ideas.

“My task is to find the authenticity in the character. I tend to go with the script and tell that story.”

“The wise warrior avoids the battle.” 

“…the very commonness of common sense makes it unlikely to have any appeal to the anointed. How can they be wiser and nobler than everyone else while agreeing with everyone else?” 

“Seldom do people think things through foolishly. More often, they do not bother to think things through at all, so that even brainy individuals can reach untenable conclusions because their brainpower means little if it is not deployed and applied.”