Lao Tzu Quotes

The more you know the less you need to say.

The man who realizes his ignorance has taken the first step toward knowledge.

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

The more I read, the more I realise what I don't know.

Fullness of knowledge always means some understanding of the depths of our ignorance; and that is always conducive to humility and reverence.

To know what you know and what you do not know, that is true knowledge.

Indeed, the most important product of knowledge is ignorance.

Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.

The learned man knows that he is ignorant.

I was born not knowing and have had only a little time to change that here and there.

I'm not very wise to many things.

To know, is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge.

A man only becomes wise when he begins to calculate the approximate depth of his ignorance.

I've reached the age of self-knowledge, so I don't know anything. People who claim that they know something are responsible for most of the fuss in the world.

The first step towards knowledge is to know that we are ignorant.

Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred to talk.

I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.

In order to have wisdom we must have ignorance.

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

To realize that you do not understand is a virtue; Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.

If I don't have wisdom, I can teach you only ignorance.

If nobody said anything unless he knew what he was talking about, a ghastly hush would descend upon the earth.

The realization of ignorance is the first act of knowing.

The little I know I owe to my ignorance.

The greatest wisdom is to realize one's lack of it.