Really, Ischomachus, I am disposed to ask: 'Does teaching consist in putting questions?' Indeed, the secret of your system has just this instant dawned upon me. I seem to see the principle in which you put your questions. You lead me through the field of my own knowledge, and then by pointing out analogies to what I know, persuade me that I really know some things which hitherto, as I believed, I had no knowledge of.

If I am to live longer, perhaps I must live out my old age, seeing and hearing less, understanding worse, coming to learn with more difficulty and to be more f…

I am not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world. (Note: This seems to Contradict much of what is said by Socrates in Crito.)

You will know that the divine is so great and of such a nature that it sees and hears everything at once, is present everywhere, and is concerned with everythi…

Always in these matters desiring rather to be taught than to teach.

'We are closer to God when we are asking questions than when we think we have the answers.'

It is better to ask some of the questions than to know all the answers.