Zhuangzi Quotes

Apart from the known and the unknown, what else is there?

But I know that all the things I do know are very small compared with the things that I don't know.

It is trust in our vast 'don't know' that allows room for the truth, that allows the next intuition to float to the surface.

there is only one thing we do know and that is that we do not know anything.

I like to watch mankind in its futile attempt to understand the unknown, when they don't even understand that which they know.

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

We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything.

Wisdom is knowing when you can't be wise.

We cannot wish for that we know not.

The most solid piece of scientific truth I know of is that we are profoundly ignorant about nature.

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

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 farther reason looks the greater is the haze in which it loses itself.

There's nothing you can know that isn't known.

Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.

No one will ever know the complete truth.

Whoever believes he knows why everything is as it is has hold of nothing.

The line between what is known scientifically and what has to be assumed in order to support knowledge is impossible to draw. Memory itself is an internal rumour.

The difference between what the most and the least learned people know is inexpressibly trivial in relation to that which is unknown.

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

I am not omniscient, but I know a lot.

In order to survive, we cling to all we know and understand. And label it reality. But knowledge and understanding are ambiguous. That reality could be an illusion. All humans live with the wrong assumptions. Isn't that another way of looking at it? That sharingan how much can you really se?

Democritus says, "But we know nothing really; for truth lies deep down".

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

Knowledge is observation and is given to those who would look.