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Socrates thought that the first step towards wisdom must begin with an honest admission of our present ignorance.

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The first step to wisdom is realizing how much you dont know


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Socrates was the first philosopher in ancient Greece to?

The Athenian philosopher Socrates was the "first" philosopher in many ways. Perhaps most important above all else, he was the first to make the claim that his wisdom, if wisdom it truly were, consisted solely of his knowledge that he didn't know anything at all with certainty.


The first step to wisdom is silence was quoted by who?

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Socrates notion of wisdom in response to the sophist?

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