Chogyam Trungpa Quotes

The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself a fool.

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

Just as a wise man can say something foolish, a fool can say something wise.

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

A wise man heedeth all things, and in his own eyes is a fool.

Nobody likes to see a stupid guy wise up.

Wisdom cannot be imparted. Wisdom that a wise man attempts to impart always sounds like foolishness to someone else.

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

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

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.

All thing I thought I knew; but now confess, the more I know I know, I know the less.

The learning and knowledge that we have, is, at the most, but little compared with that of which we are ignorant.

The mistakes of the fool are known to the world, but not to himself. The mistakes of the wise man are known to himself, but not to the world.

In seeking wisdom thou art wise; in imagining that thou hast attained it - thou art a fool.

There's stuff in this world, everybody pretends they understand. But we don't understand. It's important to listen.

The wise know their limitations; the foolish do not.

I once read that people who study others are wise but those who study themselves are enlightened.

The Foole doth thinke he is wise, but the wiseman knowes himselfe to be a Foole.

The disadvantage of becoming wise is that you realize how foolish you've been.

Man is wise only while in search of wisdom; when he imagines he has attained it, he is a fool.

The only difference between a wise man and a fool is that the wise man knows he's playing.

No one ever found wisdom without also being a fool.

A foolish man thinks he knows everything. A wise man knows he doesn't.

I never did a single wise thing in the whole course of my existence, although I have written many which have been thought so.