Zhuangzi Quotes

Of power does Man possess no particle: Of knowledge-just so much as show that still It ends in ignorance on every side.

I like to watch mankind in its futile attempt to understand the unknown, when they don't even understand that which they know.

We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far.

The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of the infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far.

I have thousands of opinions still - but that is down from millions - and, as always, I know nothing.

We are here and it is now. Further than that, all human knowledge is moonshine.

The learning and knowledge that we have, is, at the most, but little compared with that of which we are ignorant.

The known is finite, the unknown is infinite.

What we know is a drop, what we don't know is an ocean.

Who would dare assert that we know all there is to be known?

It is little enough we know and the rest is darkness.

All that mankind has ever learned is nothing more than a single grain of sand on a beach that reaches to infinity.

The truth is, we know so little about life, we don't really know what the good news is and what the bad news is.

Sometimes we just have to accept there are things we can’t know. Why is your sister ill? Why did my father die?…Sometimes we think we should be able to know everything. But we can’t. we have to allow ourselves to see what there is to see, and we have to imagine.

How little we know of what there is to know.

How little do the wisest among us know of that which is so important to us all.

We cannot conceive how the Foetus is form'd in the Womb, nor as much as how a Plant springs from the Earth we tread on ... And if we are ignorant of the most obvious things about us, and the most considerable within our selves, 'tis then no wonder that we know not the constitution and powers of the creatures, to whom we are such strangers.

For after all man knows mighty little, and may some day learn enough of his own ignorance to fall down again and pray. Not that Icare. Only, if such is God's will, and Fate and Evolution--let there be God!

With our short sight we affect to take a comprehensive view of eternity. Our horizon is the universe.

(As human beings) We see everything everything in a glass, darkly. Sometimes we can peer through the glass and catch a glimpse of what is on the other side. If we were to polish the glass clean, we'd see much more. But then we would no longer see ourselves.

Only the very ignorant are perfectly satisfied that they know. To the common man the great problems are easy. He has no trouble in accounting for the universe. He can tell you the origin and destiny of man and the why and wherefore of things.

Death would be a complete knowingness, but what frightened him was this: not knowing beforehand what it was he would know.

I know because I read. Might I suggest you try it?

The only absolute knowledge attainable by man is that life is meaningless.