Alfred North Whitehead book Process and Reality
Source: 1920s, Process and Reality: An Essay in Cosmology (1929), Chapter IV, p. 310 https://books.google.com/books?id=uJDEx6rPu1QC&pg=PA310.
“Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.”
The Education of Henry Adams (1907)
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“Ηe knew nothing except just the fact of his ignorance.”
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Alternate translation: I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.
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Diogenes Laertius
“He declared that he knew nothing, except the fact of his ignorance.”
Diogenes Laërtius (180–240) biographer of ancient Greek philosophers
Socrates, 16.
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