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"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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

We are wiser than we know.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is nothing with which every man is so afraid
as getting to know how enormously much
he is capable of doing and becoming.
- Soren Kierkegaard

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

I don't know the meaning of life,
but I know compassion is the key.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

When we do the best that we can,
we never know what miracle is wrought in our life,
or in the life of another.
- Helen Keller

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

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

As for me, all I know is that I know nothing.
- Socrates

Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.
- Benjamin Spock

Know the power of perspective.
Be a passionate observer of life.
See the events, feel the emotions,
and recognize the difference.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie.
I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave.
And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.
- H.L. Mencken

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

Uncertainty that comes from knowledge
(knowing what you don't know)
is different from uncertainty coming from ignorance.
- Isaac Asimov

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

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

Know that you are a gift to the world.
Your life is important.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The more you know the less you feel.
- Bono

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)

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

Learn the rules so you know how to break them properly.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama

If we could first know where we are,
and whither we are tending,
we could then better judge what to do,
and how to do it.
- Abraham Lincoln

We cannot possibly let ourselves get frozen into regarding
everyone we do not know as an absolute stranger.
- Albert Schweitzer

If it is surely the means to the highest end we know,
can any work be humble or disgusting?
Will it not rather be elevating as a ladder,
the means by which we are translated?
- Henry David Thoreau

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 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

About morals: I know only that
what is moral is what you feel good after
and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.
- Ernest Hemingway

To manage your mind,
know that there is nothing,
and then relinquish all attachment to nothingness.
- Lao Tzu

I want you to be concerned about your next door neighbor.
Do you know your next door neighbor?
- Mother Teresa

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
- Socrates

We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all of our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time
- T. S. Eliot

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

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

It is better to displease the people
by doing what you know is right.
- William J. H. Boetcker

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

A leader is most effective when people barely know he exists.
When his work is done, his aim fulfilled,
his troops will feel they did it themselves.
- Lao Tzu

Know that you are never alone.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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

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

Once you know yourself as a genuine seeker,
and when your own inner chamber is quite enlightened,
then comes the natural unfoldment of pure love and compassion
and a genuine desire to serve others.
- Rod Stryker

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

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

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