Can you really be 100% sure

So Ces will laugh at me for this, because we had this convo last night, but solipsism...The dictionary defines it as: The theory that the self is the only thing that can be known and verified. So that's all well and good. I'm not saying that an extreme version of that is what I imagine the world to be like, but can anyone really be completely sure that the rest of life isn't some strange experiment/program designed especially for them. Yes, it's quite self-involved, but how do I know that any of this really exists. I suppose in that essence, I could go along with do I even exist? I'm not entirely sure that my surroundings are actually there, but I can accept life for what it is. But this is just a blurb to ponder when you have time. Be careful. Don't let it consume you, for if all of this is just some made up version of what we believe to be real, is it really worth the time and effort to worry about it? Probably not.

Wisest is he...

who knows that he knows not. Well that certainly depends. I truly just argued myself into a corner that I then got out of by busting a hole in the wall. So Socrates was this gent that believed that he was, in essence, the basis for all who are wise, since he knew nothing and claimed to know nothing. Wow! Amazing! So insightful! right? Maybe not so much. The Oracle at Delphi answered that Socrates was indeed the wisest man in all of Athens. This could not be so, according to Socrates, so he went around to all the wisest men of Athens and discussed with them how indeed they must be wiser than he. He came to the conclusion though that he was truly wiser for they claimed to know all there was to know in their given fields, yet he claimed nothing. All good and grand and such. I'll agree with the fact that any self-proclaimed 'know-it-alls' probably don't know shit. But essentially, isn't Socrates message then, that the man seeking to learn is wiser than the man he seeks the knowledge from? That hardly seems feasible. Ah philosophy, I could do this forever...