i just made this right now, after trembling at my first professional correspondence with an old highschool friend.
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Then you know what you don't know, which is an aspect of knowledge.
In fact in Plato's Apology, Socrates argues that nobody in Athens is wiser than him (Socrates) because none of them are really wise, but at least Socrates knows that he's ignorant.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_know_that_I_know_nothing