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The fault, dear Brutus, lies not in the stars, but in ourselves:

Cassius from Julius Caesar.

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“I look in the mirror through the eyes of the child that was me.”
― Judy Collins

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“We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.”
― George Orwell

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“If man is to survive, he will have learned to take a delight in the essential differences between men and between cultures. He will learn that differences in ideas and attitudes are a delight, part of life's exciting variety, not something to fear.”
― Gene Roddenberry

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“Our great democracies still tend to think that a stupid man is more likely to be honest than a clever man, and our politicians take advantage of this prejudice by pretending to be even more stupid than nature made them.”
― Bertrand Russell, New Hopes for a Changing World

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“Realize that everything connects to everything else.”
― Leonardo da Vinci

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“Teach the ignorant as much as you can; society is culpable in not providing a free education for all and it must answer for the night which it produces. If the soul is left in darkness sins will be committed. The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but he who causes the darkness.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

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@edgarblythe,

"Show me a rose, or leave me alone"
MARX

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“When a man gives his opinion, he's a man. When a woman gives her opinion, she's a bitch.”
― Bette Davis

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“I not only use all the brains that I have, but all I can borrow.”
― Woodrow Wilson

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“Sometimes it's not enough to know what things mean, sometimes you have to know what things don't mean.”
― Bob Dylan

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@edgarblythe,

I'm not sure what that doesn't mean.

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@edgarblythe,

“Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.”
― Mark Twain

“The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.”
― Socrates

Does this exclude knowing something?

“The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.”
― Isaac Asimov

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Socrates must have known something, regardless of the disclaimer.

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@FBM,

FBM wrote:

I'm not sure what that doesn't mean.

Exactly!

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If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.
- George Bernard Shaw

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@edgarblythe,

Quote:

Socrates must have known something, regardless of the disclaimer.

Yes, that was my point. It sounds kind of incongruous

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@argome321,

Socrates was a pretty good skeptic, but he didn't measure up to Pyrrho of Elis in terms of admitting to what he didn't know:

http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/pyrrho/

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@FBM,

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Socrates was a pretty good skeptic, but he didn't measure up to Pyrrho of Elis in terms of admitting to what he didn't know:

http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/pyrrho/

This isn't the place for the discussion that would explain my position.
Socarte's quote seem incongruous because it is by its very nature a contradiction. How can one make an assertion that we cannot know something?Doesn't the assertion by it's inherent definition means something is known?

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