Zhuangzi Quotes

I'm not very wise to many things.

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

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

Understanding that rests in what it does not understand is the finest.

It is not so bad being ignorant if you are totally ignorant; the hard thing is knowing in some detail the reality of ignorance.

What you know, you know, what you don't know, you don't know. This is true wisdom.

Humans believe so many lies because we aren't aware. We ignore the truth or we just don't see the truth. When we are educated, we accumulate a lot of knowledge, and all that knowledge is just like a wall of fog that doesn't allow us to perceive the truth, what really is.

You only know what you know.

He who knows best knows how little he knows.

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.

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

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.

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

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

A man doesn't know what he knows until he knows what he doesn't know.

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.

The realization of ignorance is the first act of knowing.

While some of us may know than others about certain things, it is the thinnest slice of all that is, or could be known. In that sense, we are all profoundly ignorant.

What a wise man knows seems so plain and simple to himself that he easily makes the mistake of thinking it to be so for others.

Knowledge and wisdom, far from being one, Have ofttimes no connection. Knowledge dwells In heads replete with thoughts of other men, Wisdom in minds attentive to their own. Knowledge is proud that he has learned so much, Wisdom is humble that he knows no more.

It's hubris to think that the way we see things is everything there is.