Two and a half thousand years ago, the Greek philosopher Socrates was put on trial for corrupting the youth of Athens and failing to respect the gods; he was sentenced to death for those crimes.
The real motivation behind the charges, however, seems to have been that Socrates had exposed broad intellectual corruption among those in power. He was killed because of his concern for truth — by showing that the elites of Athens did not share his concern and that they knew much less than they claimed to know.
In Socrates, we see his self-acknowledged ignorance as a virtue. Strangely, in our current, radically more complex world it seems that we want “experts” always to have the answers. I propose instead that in business, politics and life in general, that we should consider seriously respecting our contemporaries whenever they display Socratic humility and let us know they don’t know.
In the meantime, consider that the person without answers — the one who says, “I don’t know!” — might be the most responsible, respectable person at the meeting table.
http://blogs.hbr.org/2013/10/dont-trust-anyone-who-offers-you-the-answer/
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