Lao Tzu Quotes

Well isn’t that one thing you’re all the more wise for? Age has taught you something. It seems to me that you know the big secret. That nobody knows what’s going on

In expanding the field of knowledge we but increase the horizon of ignorance.

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

We cannot understand. The best is perhaps what we understand least.

Knowledge, idea, belief stands in the way of wisdom.

Not creating delusions is enlightenment.

Books are as useful to a stupid person as a mirror is useful to a blind person.

It is no good to try to stop knowledge from going forward. Ignorance is never better than knowledge.

Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong.

The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.

It is harder to conceal ignorance than to acquire knowledge.

To free a person from error is to give, and not to take away.

Education, n.: That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.

Getting rid of a delusion makes us wiser than getting hold of a truth.

In complete darkness, it is only knowledge and wisdom that separates us.

Knowledge is love and light and vision.

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

All vital truth contains the memory of all that for which it is not true.

The opposite of a fact is falsehood, but the opposite of one profound truth may very well be another profound truth.

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

There are few earthly things more beautiful than a university a place where those who hate ignorance may strive to know, where those who perceive truth may strive to make others see.

Mystery is but another name for ignorance; if we were omniscient, all would be perfectly plain!

Ignorance is the curse of God; knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven.

Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.

He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.