True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- Knowing you know nothing is where true knowledge lies.
- In plain terms
- Real knowledge is knowing your limits.
- What can you take from it?
- Awareness of ignorance is the beginning of knowledge.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- What do you know for certain?
- How much do you not know?
Another view
Practical fields often demand specific knowledge regardless.
More from Socrates
To need nothing is divine, and the less a man needs the nearer does he approach to divinity.
Permalink to quote #85 True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.
Permalink to quote #87 To find yourself, think for yourself.
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