"When you are ignorant about something, to..." - Quote by Confucius
When you are ignorant about something, to know that you are ignorant about it - that is knowledge.
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More on Knowledge
“Everything that we call Invention or Discovery in the higher sense of the word is the serious exercise and activity of an original feeling for truth, which, after a long course of silent cultivation, suddenly flashes out into fruitful knowledge.”
“She has seen the mystery hid Under Egypt's pyramid: By those eyelids pale and close Now she knows what Rhamses knows.”
“As the biggest library if it is in disorder is not as useful as a small but well-arranged one, so you may accumulate a vast amount of knowledge but it will be of far less value than a much smaller amount if you have not thought it over for yourself.”
More on Self Awareness
“Failure to read what is happening in another's soul is not easily seen as a cause of unhappiness: but those who fail to attend the motions of their own soul are necessarily unhappy.”
“Gee, I never thought I had an effect on people until I was in Korea.”
“Nobody can be set free from a problem until they're willing to admit they have one.”