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05-08-2024, 07:38 AM
Plato and Socrates had a similar thought, and they came to mind.
"I know that I know nothing" Plato
Socrates: 'I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.
This saying is also connected or conflated with the answer to a question Socrates (according to Xenophon) or Chaerephon (according to Plato) is said to have posed to the Pythia, the Oracle of Delphi, in which the oracle stated something to the effect of "Socrates is the wisest person in Athens."[3] Socrates, believing the oracle but also completely convinced that he knew nothing, was said to have concluded that nobody knew anything, and that he was only wiser than others because he was the only person who recognized his own ignorance.
I always liked the old saying, "When you assume, you make an ass out of you and me."
"I know that I know nothing" Plato
Socrates: 'I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.
This saying is also connected or conflated with the answer to a question Socrates (according to Xenophon) or Chaerephon (according to Plato) is said to have posed to the Pythia, the Oracle of Delphi, in which the oracle stated something to the effect of "Socrates is the wisest person in Athens."[3] Socrates, believing the oracle but also completely convinced that he knew nothing, was said to have concluded that nobody knew anything, and that he was only wiser than others because he was the only person who recognized his own ignorance.
I always liked the old saying, "When you assume, you make an ass out of you and me."
