Confucius (-551–-479 BC) Chinese teacher, editor, politician, and philosopher
Source: The Analects, Chapter II
“The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.”
Variant: True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.
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Laozi book Tao Te Ching
Variant translation by Lin Yutang: "He who knows others is learned; he who knows himself is wise".
Source: Tao Te Ching, Ch. 33, as interpreted by Stephen Mitchell (1992)
“Nothing you believe is true. To know this is freedom.”
Byron Katie (1942) American spiritual writer
Loving What Is: Four Questions That Can Change Your Life (2002)
“All we can know is that we know nothing. And that's the height of human wisdom.”
Leo Tolstoy book War and Peace
Variant: The only thing that we know is that we know nothing — and that is the highest flight of human wisdom.
Source: War and Peace (1865–1867; 1869), Ch. I
“One thing I know, that I know nothing. This is the source of my wisdom.”
Socrates (-470–-399 BC) classical Greek Athenian philosopher
“When you know that the snake is in you – that's wisdom.”
Jordan Peterson (1962) Canadian clinical psychologist, cultural critic, and professor of psychology
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“Following conventional wisdom and relying on shortcuts can be worse than knowing nothing at all.”
Ben Horowitz (1966) American businessman
Forbes: "5 Obstacles That Inspired Me To Innovate" https://www.forbes.com/sites/theyec/2018/06/28/5-obstacles-that-inspired-me-to-innovate/#8f06bb42b77f (28 June 2018)
Tanith Lee (1947–2015) British writer
Source: Short fiction, Companions on the Road (1975), Chapter 9, “The Dark” (p. 98)