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Where does the famous saying "I know I don't know" come from?

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The classic saying "I know I don't know" was first uttered by Socrates.

Socrates is a very confident person, with a superb mind and does not mind worldly success or failure. He believed that he was guided by a divine voice and that clear thinking was the most important condition for right living. "Know thyself" constitutes Socrates' basic philosophical proposition. He promoted Pythagoras's view that the soul walks alone in the body. He pointed out that morality is knowledge, and knowledge includes all good. Socrates built virtue on the basis of knowledge, made morality the object of science, and laid the foundation for rationalist ethics.

Socrates determined not to write books, but to spread his views orally. Most of his words can be seen in some dialogue-style works of his student Plato. Plato's Socrates consistently insists that he knows nothing and that he is wise because he knows he knows nothing. But he does not believe that knowledge is unobtainable. He believes that the pursuit of knowledge is of great significance.

His similar famous sayings are -

I only know one thing, that is, I know nothing.

The more you know, the less you know.

I only know one thing in my life, why am I so ignorant.

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