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It is better to know that you do not know than to think you know what you do not
Drawn from what Socrates said
What Socrates actually said
- Socrates Athenian philosopher (469 to 399 BCE) who wrote nothing
So I left him, saying to myself, as I went away: Well, although I do not suppose that either of us knows anything really beautiful and good, I am better off than he is,—for he knows nothing, and thinks that he knows; I neither know nor think that I know.
Where this was said
↗Apology, Plato's account of his defence (tr. Benjamin Jowett, 1871)gutenberg.org
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