Laozi Quotes about Ignorance

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To know how little one knows is to have genuine knowledge. Not to know how little one knows is to be deluded. Only those who know when they are deluded can free themselves from such delusion. The intelligent people are

To know how little one knows is to have genuine knowledge. Not to know how little one knows is to be deluded. Only those who know when they are deluded can free themselves from such delusion. The intelligent people are not deluded, because they know and accept their ignorance as ignorance, and thereby have genuine knowledge.

Laozi

Ignorance, Knowledge, Intelligent

To know that you do not know is the best. To pretend to know when you do not know is a disease.

Laozi

Book, Ignorance, Knowledge

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

Laozi

Ignorance, Knows

Laozi, Sepharial (1904). “The Book of the Simple Way of Laotze: A New Translation from the Text of the Tao-teh-king”

To realize that our knowledge is ignorance, This is a noble insight. To regard our ignorance as knowledge, This is mental sickness. Only when we are sick of the sickness Shall we cease to be sick. The Sage is not sick, being sick of sickness; This is the secret of health.

Laozi

Ignorance, Knowledge, Sick

Laozi, Jingxiong Wu (1997). “Dao teh jing”