Confucius Knows Quotations

To know what you know and what you do not know, that is true knowledge.

Worry not that no one knows of you; seek to be worth knowing.

You will never know how sharp a sword is unless it's drawn from its sheath

What you know you know. What you don't know, you don't know. This is knowledge.

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.

Shall I tell you what knowledge is? It is to know both what one knows and what one does not know.

To prefer it is better than to only know it. To delight in it is better than merely to prefer it.

To know what is the right thing to do and not do it is the greatest cowardice.

True knowledge is when one knows the limitations of one's knowledge.

If you don't know the life yet, how could be possible for you to know the death?

If you know, say you know. If you don't know, say you don't know.

Better than the one who knows what is right is the one who loves what is right.

Don't worry that other people don't know you; worry that you don't know other people.

If you don't know how to live, why wonder about death?

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

To know and not do, is to not yet know.

True wisdom is knowing what you don't know

When you are ignorant about something, to know that you are ignorant about it - that is knowledge.