The Oracle said that no one was wiser than Socrates. The reason was that Socrates knew he was ignorant. In my view, the important thing was that not only did he know he was ignorant, he was willing to admit to it. He admitted this so publicly, that we know about it thousands of years later.
In the world we live in, people are trained to guess when they don’t know something. They do not want to admit they are ignorant lest they look incompetent.
This is very unhealthy. No one can be expected to know everything. There should be no shame in admitting your ignorance, yet the word ignorant itself has extremely negative connotations. Rather than stigmatize ignorance, we should be willing to admit it openly like Socrates.
“I don’t know, but I will try to find out” should be our motto.
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