“One must learn by doing the thing, for though you think you know it, you have no certainty until you try.”

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One must learn by doing the thing, for though you think you know it, you have no certainty until you try. — Sophocles quote card
Playwright · 497 BC – 406 BC

Sophocles was an Athenian tragedian who wrote more than 120 plays, of which seven survive complete. Oedipus Rex and Antigone, his most famous works, set the pattern for Western tragedy.

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