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All we can know is that we know nothing. And that's the height of human wisdom.

The only thing that we know is that we know nothing — and that is the highest flight of human wisdom.

Nothing has been discovered, nothing has been invented. We can only know that we know nothing. And that's the highest degree of human wisdom.

Leo Tolstoy, Russian author (1828–1910)

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We can never know anything.

Werner Heisenberg, German theoretical physicist and nobel prize winner (1901–1976)

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One thing only I know, and that is that I know nothing'.

Socrates, 5th-century BCE Greek philosopher

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The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.

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Wisdom is knowing you know nothing

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To know, but to be as though not knowing, is the height of wisdom.

Bruce Lee, Hong Kong–American martial artist and actor (1940–1973)

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The Only Thing I Know For Sure Is That I Know Nothing At All, For Sure

Socrates, 5th-century BCE Greek philosopher

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True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.

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I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.

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I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.

One thing only I know, and that is that I know nothing.

The only thing I know is that I know nothing, and i am no quite sure that i know that.

Perhaps my greatest wisdom is the knowledge that I do not know.