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Quotation from Meno by Plato
“that we shall be better and braver and less helpless if we think that we ought to enquire, than we should have been if we indulged in the idle fancy that there was no knowing and no use in seeking to know what we do not know”
Meno, 86b-c, trans. Benjamin Jowett (1871)
After the slave-boy demonstration, Socrates admits uncertainty about details of the recollection story but says he will fight for the duty of inquiry.
Citation: "that we shall be better and braver and less helpless if we think that we ought to enquire, than we should have been if we indulged in the idle fancy that there was no knowing and no use in seeking to know what we do not know" — Plato, Meno, 86b-c, trans. Benjamin Jowett (1871). (id plato-meno-q6)
