And in knowing that you know nothing, that makes you the smartest of all.

Wind buffs up empty bladders; opinion, fools.

Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers.

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

A mathematician, like a painter or a poet, is a maker of patterns. If his patterns are more permanent than theirs, it is because they are made with ideas.

A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.