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Quotation from Theaetetus by Plato

“you will be soberer and humbler and gentler to other men, and will be too modest to fancy that you know what you do not know”

Plato (spoken by Socrates)

Theaetetus, Conclusion, c. 210c, trans. Benjamin Jowett (1892)

Though every definition has failed, Socrates names what the boy has gained.

Citation: "you will be soberer and humbler and gentler to other men, and will be too modest to fancy that you know what you do not know" — Plato, Theaetetus, Conclusion, c. 210c, trans. Benjamin Jowett (1892). (id plato-theaetetus-q10)

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