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Thursday, June 6, 2019

Sayings of Socrates 10


When I left him, I reasoned thus with myself: I am wiser than this man, for neither of us appears to know anything great and good. But he fancies he knows something, although he knows nothing; whereas I, as I do not know anything, do not fancy that I do. 

In this trifling particular, then, I appear to be wiser than he, because I do not fancy I know what I do not know.

—Plato, Apology 21d

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