"To know one's ignorance is the best..." - Quote by Lao Tzu
To know one's ignorance is the best part of knowledge.
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“Don't impose your will through manipulation of aggressive emotions and actions.”
“Good leaders reach solutions, and then stop. They do not dare to rely on force.”
“People who have to fight for their living and are not afraid to die for it are higher persons than those who, stationed high, are too fat to dare to die.”
More on Knowledge
“I feel... an ardent desire to see knowledge so disseminated through the mass of mankind that it may, at length, reach even the extremes of society: beggars and kings.”
“With regard to philosophical metaphysics, I always see increasing numbers who have attained to the negative goal, but as yet few who climb a few rungs backwards; one ought to look out, perhaps, over the last steps of the ladder, but not try to stand upon them.”
“Since [man] is infinitely removed from comprehending the extremes, the end of things and their beginning are hopelessly hidden from him in an impenetrable secret; he is equally incapable of seeing the nothing from which he was made, and the infinite in which he is swallowed up.”
More on Humility
“The more informed you are, the less arrogant and aggressive you are.”
“You cannot attain to charity except through humility.”
“The seeker after truth should be humbler than the dust. The world crushes the dust under its feet, but the seeker after truth should so humble himself that even the dust could crush him. Only then, and not till then, will he have a glimpse of truth.”