Lao Tzu Quotes

Prophecy, however honest, is generally a poor substitute for experience.

No one, however smart, however well educated … is the suppository of all wisdom.

My gran'ther's rule was safer 'n 'tis to crow: Don't never prophesy — onless ye know.

I know everything that's out there that's worth knowing about.

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

Our knowledge is a little island in a great ocean of nonknowledge.

Ignorance is bold and knowledge reserved.

I am not young enough to know everything.

The thing that people associate with expertise, authoritativeness, kind of with a capital 'A,' don't correlate very well with who's actually good at making predictions.

Indeed, the most important product of knowledge is ignorance.

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

Experience is the only prophecy of wise men.

I'm not very wise to many things.

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

I'm not a genius. I'm just a tremendous bundle of experience.

In order to have wisdom we must have ignorance.

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.

Probability is expectation founded upon partial knowledge. A perfect acquaintance with all the circumstances affecting the occurrence of an event would change expectation into certainty, and leave nether room nor demand for a theory of probabilities.

I've been around a while. I kinda know these things.

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.

I am not young enough to know everything.

I can't predict the future.

Who knows most, doubts most.

Don't let your heart get big because of your knowledge. Take counsel with the ignorant as well as with the scholar.