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Socrates believed, according to Plato, that the true philosopher-- the true wise man-- is the man who admits that he, in fact, is not in the know: indeed, one might say, the wise man is aware of his ignorance.
Yesterday I came across this line in The Author's Idiot:
To attain perfection you have to start off by being ignorant of many things!I pondered for some time; I started... If my corpulant ignorance is a sign of wisdom and perfection, then I must be well on my way to glorious perfection. *smiles* Posted by jeremy stock at November 18, 2001 11:34 AM