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Classical antiquity2 quotes
I know that I do not know. — Socrates · 399 BCWhat is the first business of one who practices philosophy? To get rid of self-conceit. For it is impossible for anyone to begin to learn that which he thinks he already knows. — Epictetus · 108Age of Enlightenment1 quote
But where's the man, who counsel can bestow,
Still pleased to teach, and yet not proud to know? — Alexander Pope · 1711The Renaissance1 quote
The first and wisest of them all professed
To know this only, that he nothing knew. — John Milton · 1671