Confucius Quotes

If we become increasingly humble about how little we know, we may be more eager to search.

He who knows best knows how little he knows.

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

Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.

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

Indeed, the most important product of knowledge is ignorance.

I'm not very wise to many things.

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.

In order to have wisdom we must have ignorance.

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

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

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

I do not know everything; still many things I understand.

Our knowledge is a little island in a great ocean of nonknowledge.

Teach thy tongue to say 'I do not know', and thou shalt progress.

The learned man knows that he is ignorant.

'How do you know so much about everything?' was asked of a very wise and intelligent man; and the answer was 'By never being afraid or ashamed to ask questions as to anything of which I was ignorant.'

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

Those who realize their folly are not true fools.

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

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

Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; wisdom is humble that it knows no more.

The more knowledge you get, the more questions you ask. The smarter you get, the more you realize that everything can be possible.

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