Plato, Alcibiades 1, section 106d

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[106d]

Alcibiades
I should say, I suppose, it was something about which I knew better than they.

Socrates
Then you are a good adviser on things about which you actually know.

Alcibiades
To be sure.

Socrates
And you know only the things you have learnt from others or discovered yourself?

Alcibiades
What could I know besides?

Socrates
And can it be that you would ever have learnt or discovered anything without being willing either to learn it or to inquire into it yourself?

Alcibiades
No.

Socrates
Well then, would you have been willing to inquire into or learn what you thought you knew?

Alcibiades
No, indeed.

Plato. Plato in Twelve Volumes, Vol. 8 translated by W.R.M. Lamb. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1955.

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