Meno

by Plato

is when he, who desires the honourable, is able to provide it for himself; so the poet says, and I say too— 'Virtue is the desire of things honourable and the power of attaining them.'

for I perplex others, not because I am clear, but because I am utterly perplexed myself.

You argue that a man cannot enquire either about that which he knows, or about that which he does not know; for if he knows, he has no need to enquire; and if not, he cannot; for he does not know the very subject about which he is to enquire