Those who have the privilege to know have the duty to act, and in that action are the seeds of new knowledge.
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My friend care for your psyche know thyself, for once we know ourselves, we may learn how to care for ourselves.
To fear death, gentlemen, is no other than to think oneself wise when one is not, to think one knows what one does not know. No one knows whether death may not be the greatest of all blessings for a man, yet men fear it as if they knew that it is the greatest of evils.
Well, although I do not suppose that either of us know anything really beautiful & good, I am better off than he is – for he knows nothing & thinks that he knows; I neither know nor think that I know.
The ancient Oracle said that I was the wisest of all the Greeks. It is because I alone, of all the Greeks, know that I know nothing.
I’m wiser than that person. For it’s likely that neither of us knows anything fine and good, but he thinks he knows something he doesn’t know, whereas I, since I don’t in fact know, don’t think that I do either. At any rate, it seems that I’m wiser than he in just this one small way: that what I don’t know, I don’t think I know.
I neither know nor think that I know.
I know I’m intelligent because I know that I know nothing.
So I withdrew and thought to myself: ‘I am wiser than this man; it is likely that neither of us knows anything worthwhile, but he thinks he knows something when he does not, whereas when I do not know, neither do I think I know; so I am likely to be wiser than he to this small extent, that I do not think I know what I do not know.
I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.
