Lao Tzu Quotes

I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.

To know you are ignorant is the beginning of wisdom.

Knowing ignorance is strength; ignoring knowledge is sickness.

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

He that knew all that learning ever writ, Knew only this - that he knew nothing yet.

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 know nothing, except the fact of my ignorance.

Knowing what I don't know helps me every day.

I don't study to know more, but to ignore less.

The more we learn the more we realize how little we know.

Nor am I ashamed, as some are, to confess my ignorance of those matters with which I am unacquainted.

The wise know too well their weakness to assume infallibility; and he who knows most knows best how little he knows.

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

The wise man is one who knows what he does not know.

Not to know is the beginning of wisdom.

Wisdom tends to grow in proportion to one's awareness of one's ignorance.

Acknowledging what you don't know is the dawning of wisdom.

The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.

Fear and realisation of ignorance, strong medicines against stupid pride.

He who thinks he knows, doesn't know. He who knows that he doesn't know, knows.

I know enough now to know I know nothing.

It's like the more you know the more you know you don't know.

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.

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