The question“[Chaerephon] asked the oracle to tell him whether anyone was wiser than I was.”
The answer“The Pythian prophetess answered, that there was no man wiser.”
The politician“He knows nothing, and thinks that he knows; I neither know nor think that I know.”
The poets“Upon the strength of their poetry they believed themselves to be the wisest of men in other things in which they were not wise.”
The craftsmen“Because they were good workmen they thought that they also knew all sorts of high matters, and this defect in them overshadowed their wisdom.”
The conclusion“He, O men, is the wisest, who, like Socrates, knows that his wisdom is in truth worth nothing.”
