An idea from Lives of the Eminent Philosophers

Socrates held that the one good is knowledge and the one evil is ignorance. For himself he claimed very little: “he knew nothing, except the fact of his ignorance.”

From Lives of the Eminent Philosophers by Diogenes Laertius

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