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“He declared that he knew nothing, except the fact of his ignorance.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Socrates. xvi.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 72cf71f989eb39d05bdefff34216ac5ffcb1355410513d04b4b864529dfb1ddd
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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