Thich Nhat Hanh Quotes

You have to get a little untrapped from too much prior knowledge.

Guarding knowledge is not a good way to understand. Understanding means to throw away your knowledge.

In a hollow head there is much room for knowledge.

It is our knowledge - the things we are sure of - that makes the world go wrong and keeps us from seeing and learning.

If you start with the mindset that you know nothing, you will learn a lot that nobody knew before.

The greatest and noblest pleasure which we have in this world is to discover new truths, and the next is to shake off old prejudices.

Indeed, the most important product of knowledge is ignorance.

No one is dumb who is curious. The people who don't ask questions remain clueless throughout their lives.

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

Preconceived notions are the locks on the door to wisdom.

Let ignorance talk as it will, learning has its value.

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

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

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

I used to have so many opinions before I learned the facts.

It really is very true that the more you do, the less you know. I try to keep myself very open-minded in that sense.

A man remains ignorant because he loves ignorance, and chooses ignorant thoughts; a man becomes wise because he loves wisdom and chooses wise thoughts.

Not to know what happened before means to remain forever a child.

Like this gas tank, you are overflowing with preconceptions, full of useless knowledge. You hold many facts and opinions, yet know little of yourself. Before you can learn, you'll have to first empty your tank.

The ignorant are to be found as much among the educated as among the uneducated.

Nothing puts a greater obstacle in the way of the progress of knowledge than thinking that one knows what one does not yet know.

Wisdom comes to those who learn nothing, unlearn everything.

Don't hold strong opinions about things you don't truly understand.

Who does not understand should either learn, or be silent.