Jaggi Vasudev Quotes

The first step towards knowing is to see that you do not know.

But let a man know that there are things to be known, of which he is ignorant, and it is so much carved out of his domain of universal knowledge.

To know you are ignorant is the beginning of wisdom.

Shall I tell you what knowledge is? It is to know both what one knows and what one does not know.

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

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

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

I'm not very wise to many things.

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

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.

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

Our understanding, great as it sometimes seems, can be nothing but the wide-eyed wonder of the child when measured against omniscience.

The realization of ignorance is the first act of knowing.

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

It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance.

There's stuff in this world, everybody pretends they understand. But we don't understand. It's important to listen.

I think humility - which I think is a very good value to adopt - is basically an extension of understanding your own ignorance.

The vain presumption of understanding everything can have no other basis than never having understood anything. For anyone who had ever experienced just once the perfect understanding of one single thing, and had truly tasted how knowledge is accomplished, would recognize that of the infinity of other truths he understands nothing.

I do not know everything; still many things I understand.

I'm not aware of too many things, I know what I know, if you know what I mean.

We can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom.

Not to know is the beginning of wisdom.

To take what you know for what you know, and what you do not know for what you do not know, that is knowledge indeed.

Ignorance, if recognized, is often more fruitful than the appearance of knowledge.

There is only one calamity: ignorance. And there is only one solution: enlightenment.