Lao Tzu Quotes

The learned man knows that he is ignorant.

A man only becomes wise when he begins to calculate the approximate depth of his ignorance.

The man who realizes his ignorance has taken the first step toward 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.

The greatest wisdom is to realize one's lack of it.

To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge.

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

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

To know you are ignorant is the beginning of wisdom.

To know one's ignorance is the best part of knowledge.

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

The more I read, the more I realise what I don't know.

He who knows best knows how little he knows.

To know what you know and what you do not know, that is true knowledge.

I was born not knowing and have had only a little time to change that here and there.

When you know a thing, to hold that you know it, and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it - this is knowledge.

A college education shows a man how little other people know.

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'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.

The first step towards knowledge is to know that we are ignorant.

Those who realize their folly are not true fools.

Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.

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

Purity engenders Wisdom, Passion avarice, and Ignorance folly, infatuation and darkness.