A Quote by Plato

Wisest is he who knows what he does not know.

Plato

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Plato
Greek - Philosopher
427 BC - 347 BC

Wisest is she who knows she does not know.

Jostein Gaarder

The wisest man knows he know nothing.

A. Lee Martinez

There are four types of men in this world: 1. The man who knows, and knows that he knows; he is wise, so consult him. 2. The man who knows, but doesn't know that he knows; help him not forget what he knows. 3. The man who knows not, and knows that he knows not; teach him. 4. Finally, there is the man who knows not but pretends that he knows; he is a fool, so avoid him.

Solomon Ibn Gabirol

And he who does not know himself does not know others, so it may be said with equal truth, that he who does not know others knows himself but very imperfectly.

Joshua Reynolds

No student knows his subject: the most he knows is where and how to find out the things he does not know

Woodrow Wilson

Consciousness is a state in which a man knows all at once everything that he in general knows and in which he can see how little he does know and how many contradictions there are in what he knows.

G. I. Gurdjieff

The dog knows, but does not know that he knows.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Wisest is he who knows he knows not.

Socrates

Who is the wisest man? He who neither knows or wishes for anything else than what happens.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

He, O men, is the wisest, who, like Socrates, knows that his wisdom is in truth worth nothing.

Plato

The wisest is he that knows only that he knows nothing. God only knows. We mortals are only troubled with morbid little ideas, sired by circumstance and damned by folly. The human head can absorb only the flavorings of its surroundings. We assume that our faith political and our creed religious are founded upon our reason, when they are really made for us by social conditions over which we had little control.

William Cowper Brann

When you see something that does work, whether you understand fashion or not, you can still make that difference and say, 'This guy knows what he's doing' - even though I don't know what it is - and this clearly... I don't think he knows.