Eckhart Tolle explains Socrates' claim that true wisdom is comfort with not knowing, not just intellectual humility. Most university philosophers miss this because they've never actually experienced that state of uncertainty themselves.
"The reason why they call me the wisest of all men is that I'm the only one who knows that he knows nothing." That's what Socrates said, and even that statement is not understood by people who teach philosophy in universities, because they have never tasted, they've never experienced, realized what that not knowing is. What he was actually saying is: I'm the only one who is comfortable with not knowing. That's why I'm the wisest of all men.
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