“You [a disciple], shall I teach you about knowledge? What you know, you know, what you don't know, you don't know. This is true wisdom.”

—  Confucius

Source: The Analects, Chapter II

Original

由，誨女知之乎，知之為知之，不知為不知，是知也。

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