"To know" is to know that you know nothing.
by Confucius

"To know" is to know that you know nothing.
That is the meaning of true knowledge.
- Confucius

Related topics: Wisdom

Everything has beauty,
but not everyone sees it.
- Confucius

Life is really simple,
but we insist on making it complicated.
- Confucius

Our greatest glory is not in never falling,
but in rising every time we fall.
- Confucius

Please sign-up for my Free Daily Inspirational Quotes and Insights Email on the form below.

Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

To know everything is to know nothing,
but to know nothing is to know everything.
- Confucius

If you think in terms of a year, plant a seed;
if in terms of ten years, plant trees;
if in terms of 100 years, teach the people.
- Confucius

Wherever you go, go with all your heart.
- Confucius

They must often change,
who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.
- Confucius

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

Success depends upon previous preparation,
and without such preparation there is sure to be failure.
- Confucius

Choose a job you love,
and you will never have to work a day in your life.
- Confucius

To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
- Confucius

Never impose on others what
you would not choose for yourself.
- Confucius (Ancient Chinese)

Remember, no matter where you go, there you are.
- Confucius

Study the past, if you would divine the future.
- Confucius

The gem cannot be polished without friction,
nor man perfected without trials.
- Confucius

If you look into your own heart,
and you find nothing wrong there,
what is there to worry about?
What is there to fear?
- Confucius

Music produces a kind of pleasure
which human nature cannot do without.
- Confucius

Heaven means to be one with God.
- Confucius

Never give a sword to a man who can't dance.
- Confucius

Know the power and the peace of saying,
"I love you just the way you are."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

If you don't know where you're going,
any road will take you there.
- Lewis Carroll
(Alice in Wonderland)

Stand Tall, Stand Proud.
Know that you are unique and magnificent.
You do not need the approval of others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Know thyself.
- Socrates (inscribed on the ancient Greek temple at Delphi)

Mama always said life was like a box of chocolates.
You never know what you're gonna get.
- the movie Forrest Gump

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.
- Lao Tzu

God grant me the serenity
To accept the things I cannot change;
the courage to change the things I can;
and the wisdom to know the difference.
- Reinhold Niebuhr (Serenity Prayer)

Know that the greatest fear is fear of the unknown.
Seek to meet the unknown with courage and a sense of adventure.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

One can not reflect in streaming water.
Only those who know internal peace can give it to others.
- Lao Tzu

Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer
but wish we didn't.
- Erica Jong

Ultimately we know deeply that the other side
of every fear is a freedom.
- Marilyn Ferguson

Knowledge is happiness, because to have knowledge -
broad, deep knowledge - is to know true ends from false,
and lofty things from low.
- Helen Keller

To know what you prefer
instead of humbly saying Amen
to what the world tells you you ought to prefer,
is to have kept your soul alive.
- Robert Louis Stevenson

The truth of the matter is that
you always know the right thing to do.
The hard part is doing it.
- Norman Schwarzkoff

Know that all people are your brothers and sisters.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

When you see something done,
know that you intended it.
If you don't like what you see,
then deeply examine your intentions.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Women are like teabags.
We don't know our true strength
until we are in hot water!
- Eleanor Roosevelt

When the well's dry, we know the worth of water.
- Benjamin Franklin

Improve what you can
and accept all the rest of life
just as it comes.
Know that fear is your worst enemy -
perhaps your only enemy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Know that fear is your worst enemy -
perhaps your only enemy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Do what you love.
Know your own bone;
gnaw at it, bury it, unearth it,
and gnaw it still.
- Henry David Thoreau

True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.
- Socrates

You got to be careful if you
don't know where you're going,
because you might not get there.
- Yogi Berra

Know thyself, and thou shalt know the Universe and God.
- Pythagoras

Know the power of kindness.
Whatever you do, do with kindness.
Whatever you say, say with kindness.
Wherever you go,
radiate your kindness to all.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Know that you do not need the approval of others.
You are unique and magnificent. Stand tall, stand proud.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

I distrust those people who know so well
what God wants them to do,
because I notice it always coincides
with their own desires.
- Susan B. Anthony

The years teach much which the days never know.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Know that your life is designed to be an adventure.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

To live is to choose. But to choose well,
you must know who you are and what you stand for,
where you want to go and why you want to get there.
- Kofi Annan

We are not what we know
but what we are willing to learn.
- Mary Catherine Bateson

I do the very best I know how -
the very best I can;
and I mean to keep on doing so until the end.
- Abraham Lincoln

Trust yourself, then you will know how to live.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Know that you sail the seas of life
as the master of your own ship.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Know that where there is love, nothing is missing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Go to the people
Live among them
Learn from them
Love them
Serve them
Plan with them
Start with what they know
Build on what they have.
- Jimmy Yen (Y. C. James Yen)

It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble.
It's what you know for sure that just ain't so.
- Mark Twain (attributed)

I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I know:
the only ones among you who will be really happy
are those who will have sought and found how to serve.
- Albert Schweitzer

"Go to the people and live among them
in order to know them and learn from them.
- Jimmy Yen

We are wiser than we know.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

If you know what to do to reach your goal,
it's not a big enough goal.
- Bob Proctor

Know, first, who you are, and then adorn yourself accordingly.
- Epictetus

I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing,
and that is that I know nothing.
- Socrates

To know how to free oneself is nothing;
the arduous thing is to know what to do with one's freedom.
- Andre Gide

Know that time, like life itself, has no inherent meaning.
You give your own meaning to time, as to life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Know that you can gather strength from life's storms.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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

He who knows, does not speak.
He who speaks, does not know.
- Lao Tzu

Nobody cares how much you know,
until they know how much you care.
- attributed to Theodore Roosevelt, among others,
but probably earlier and anonymous

The more I see, the less I know for sure.
- John Lennon

As soon as you trust yourself,
you will know how to live.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Please sign up on the form below to receive my Free Daily Inspiration - Daily Quotes email.

May the world be kind to you, and may your own thoughts be gentle upon yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie