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Well, my art of midwifery is in most respects like theirs; but differs, in that I attend men and not women, and I look after their souls when they are in labor, and not after their bodies: and the triumph of my art is in thoroughly examining whether the thought which the mind of the young man brings forth is a false idol or a noble and true birth.
Quoted in Theaetetus, by Plato
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Original Citation
Socrates. Quoted in Θεαίτητος [Theaetetus], written by Plato. c. 369 BC.
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Current Citation
Socrates. Quoted in Theaetetus, written by Plato, translated by John McDowell. Oxford University Press, 2014.
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