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Friday, May 3, 2019

Sayings of Socrates 5


I myself know nothing, except just a little, enough to extract an argument from another man who is wise, and to receive it fairly. 

—Plato, Theaetetus, 161b

ἐγὼ δὲ οὐδὲν ἐπίσταμαι πλέον πλὴν βραχέος, ὅσον λόγον παρ᾽ ἑτέρου σοφοῦ λαβεῖν καὶ ἀποδέξασθαι μετρίως.  

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