“Shall I tell you what knowledge is? It is to know both what one knows and what one does not know.”
Source: The Best of Confucius
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Famous Confucius Quotes
“Only after Winter comes do we know that the pine and the cypress are the last to fade.”
Source: Analects: With Selections from Traditional Commentaries
“Knowledge is recognizing what you know and what you don't.”
“If you know, say you know. If you don't know, say you don't know.”
Source: The wisdom of Confucius
“True knowledge is when one knows the limitations of one's knowledge.”
“To know what is the right thing to do and not do it is the greatest cowardice.”
“If you don't know the life yet, how could be possible for you to know the death?”
“Not knowing life, how can we know death? Why talk of spirits when you do not understand men?”
“To prefer it is better than to only know it. To delight in it is better than merely to prefer it.”
Source: 论语
“Those who know the TRUTH are not equal to those who love it.”
Source: The Analects of Confucius In Plain and Simple English: BookCaps Study Guide
“He who knows all the answers has not been asked all the questions.”
“Without knowing the force of words, it is impossible to know more.”
Source: The Analects
“You will never know how sharp a sword is unless it's drawn from its sheath”
Source: Confucian Analects, The Great Learning & The Doctrine of the Mean
Source: Confucian Analects
“Worry not that no one knows you; seek to be worth knowing.”
Source: The Best of Confucius
“To know is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge.”
“He who merely knows right principles is not equal to him who loves them.”
“The more you know yourself, the more you forgive yourself.”
Source: The Analects of Confucius In Plain and Simple English: BookCaps Study Guide
“How should I know anything about another world when I know so little of this?”
“To know everything is to know nothing, but to know nothing is to know everything.”
“To know it is not as good as to love it, and to love it is not as good as to take delight in it.”
Source: The Analects of Confucius In Plain and Simple English: BookCaps Study Guide
“What you know, you know, what you don't know, you don't know. This is true wisdom.”
“Don't worry that other people don't know you; worry that you don't know other people.”
“Grieve not that men do not know you; grieve that you do not know men.”
Source: Lun Yü
“Even if people do not know what real kindness is, they nonetheless have it within them.”
“Better than the one who knows what is right is the one who loves what is right.”
“To know your faults and be able to change is the greatest virtue.”
“When you are ignorant about something, to know that you are ignorant about it - that is knowledge.”