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Paul Buchheit
"The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing." - http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes...
July 11, 2008
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Mahesh, siavash, Vivek Sundaram and 20 other people liked this
Yup. That's my motto
- Bwana ☠
Three stages of expertize: http://blog.gardeviance.org/2008...
- Ketan Khairnar
Ok So-crates! Where's that phone booth again?!?
- Jim Stanger
Quote isn't even correct, which ironically proves the quote true. Check here: http://www.skeptic.com/eskepti... for a more in depth explanation.
- Nicholas Molnar
Ah! Some Zen for the morning.
- Parth Awasthi
@nick: thanks for the link!
- Count Caturday
You must know something.. isn't it?
- Muthu Ramadoss
The interesting thing about this quote is that the direct meaning suggests that knowledge is endless and one can not know everything. At the same time this is being said in the form of a negative self-referential statement, a construct that actually enabled Gödel to prove this in a mathematical sense.
- Vlado Handziski
My youngest son already accepts that!
- RAPatton
"I know that I know nothing. Therefore I know something. That makes me the smartest man in the whole world" -- in a Socrates comic I read in Western Civilization/Humanities class in the 9th grade.
- RAPatton