2. Understanding a question is half an answer.

3. Prefer knowledge to wealth, for the one is transitory, the other perpetual.

4. The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.

5. The ancient Oracle said that I was the wisest of all the Greeks. It is because I alone, of all the Greeks, know that I know nothing.

6. Whatever authority I may have rests solely on knowing how little I know.

7. I shall never fear or avoid things of which I do not know.

9. You think that upon the score of fore-knowledge and divining I am infinitely inferior to the swans. When they perceive approaching death they sing more merrily than before, because of the joy they have in going to the God they serve.

10. Whatever authority I may have rests solely on knowing how little I know.