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

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

"If he who undeceives people concerning their own ignorance would make them well-pleased with him, he must deceive them."

"For fear of death is indeed nothing other than to think oneself wise when one is not; for it is to think one knows what one does not know."

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