An idea from Lives of the Eminent Philosophers

Pyrrho held that nobody can know how things really are, so he kept his judgment on hold. One early writer says his friends had to pull him away from carts and cliffs. Another says he never once acted carelessly.

From Lives of the Eminent Philosophers by Diogenes Laertius

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