Lao Tzu Quotes

Knowledge is the barrier to knowing. When knowledge is dropped, knowing flowers.

Doubt grows with knowledge.

Indeed he knows not how to know who knows not also how to un-know.

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

It is never wise to turn aside from knowing, however the knowing comes.

To know you are ignorant is the beginning of wisdom.

To know one's ignorance is the best part of knowledge.

To know yet to think that one does not know is best; Not to know yet to think that one knows will lead to difficulty.

Wisdom comes from within. Knowledge is acquired and can sometimes put a screen on your wisdom.

The learned man knows that he is ignorant.

No man should escape our universities without knowing how little he knows.

I'm not very wise to many things.

When you know a thing, to hold that you know it, and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it - this is knowledge.

It is impossible to make people understand their ignorance, for it requires knowledge to perceive it; and, therefore, he that can perceive it hath it not.

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.

Preconceived notions are the locks on the door to wisdom.

The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance.

Not engaging in ignorance is wisdom.

Be quick to learn and wise to know.

Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; wisdom is humble that it knows no more.

The stupidity of people comes from having an answer for everything. The wisdom of the novel comes from having a question for everything.

The realization of ignorance is the first act of knowing.

Learning sleeps and snores in libraries, but wisdom is everywhere, wide awake, on tiptoe.