An idea from The Trial and Death of Socrates

That small difference was his whole claim to wisdom. He decided the oracle meant that human wisdom is worth very little, and the wisest person is the one who knows it. Young men copied his questioning, and the people they questioned blamed him.

From The Trial and Death of Socrates by Plato

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