Confucius
“What you know, you know; what you don’t know, you don’t know. This is true wisdom.”
– Confucius (a Chinese teacher, editor, politician, and philosopher of the 6th-5th centuries BC
“What you know, you know; what you don’t know, you don’t know. This is true wisdom.”
– Confucius (a Chinese teacher, editor, politician, and philosopher of the 6th-5th centuries BC
“Not having heard something is not as good as having heard it; having heard it is not as good as having seen it; having seen it is not as good as knowing it; knowing it is not as good as putting it into practice.”
“No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.”
“When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That’s my religion.”
“If your dreams do not scare you, they are not big enough.”
– Ellen Johnson Sirleaf (a former president of Liberia)
“It is the historian’s function, not to make us clever for the next time, but to make us wise forever.”
– Jacob Burckhardt (a Swiss historian of art and culture and an influential figure in the historiography of both fields)
“Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.”
– Aristotle (a Greek philosopher and polymath during the Classical period)