I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.

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

I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who de…

He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.

I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework.

A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions - as attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him answers above all.

First come I; my name is Jowett. There's no knowledge but I know it. I am master of this college: What I don't know isn't knowledge.