Socrates says: "Chaerephon, as you know, was very impetuous in all his actions, and he went to Delphi and boldly asked the oracle to tell him whether there was anyone wiser of I was, and the prophetess Pythia replied that there was no wiser man” (Plato, page 4). alone might be enough to assume that he is refuting the leadership of Athens and Pericles who supported it, known for imposing his beliefs on its citizens Socrates could have implied that the kind of people who think they know what is best and to put in practice those opinions about your own people as facts they are wrong only because they are sure they are.