Lao Tzu Quotes

The learned man knows that he is ignorant.

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 that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.

Doubt is the origin of wisdom.

No man who worships education has got the best out of education... Without a gentle contempt for education no man's education is complete.

I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.

He who knows best knows how little he knows.

A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool.

Doubt grows with knowledge.

I've reached the age of self-knowledge, so I don't know anything. People who claim that they know something are responsible for most of the fuss in the world.

To know anything well involves a profound sensation of ignorance.

I know nothing, except the fact of my ignorance.

Indeed he knows not how to know who knows not also how to un-know.

To realize that you do not understand is a virtue; Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.

The stupidity of people comes from having an answer for everything. The wisdom of the novel comes from having a question for everything.

Who knows most, doubts most.

It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance.

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

The only thing more dangerous than ignorance is arrogance.

Knowledge is the barrier to knowing. When knowledge is dropped, knowing flowers.

The man who thinks he knows something does not yet know as he ought to know.

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

I only know when I don't know a thing. My uncle has taught me that wisdom lies in that.

The surest way to lose truth is to pretend that one already wholly possesses it.

Indeed, the most important product of knowledge is ignorance.