“When you know a thing, to recognize that you know it, and when you do not know a thing, to recognize that you do not know it. That is knowledge”
- Confucius -
“Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance”
- Confucius -
“Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous”
- Confucius -
“He who knows others is learned. He who knows himself is wise”
- Lao Tzu -
“To know that you do not know is the best. To pretend to know when you do not know is disease”
- Lao Tzu -
“Don't imagine that you'll discover the truth by accumulating more knowledge. Knowledge creates doubt, and doubt makes you ravenous for more knowledge. You can't get full eating this way”
- Lao Tzu -
“Distortion upon distortion: the more one uses the mind, the more confused one becomes”
- Lao Tzu -
Sorry if that was a bit long. Your thoughts?
2006-09-25 06:56:17 · 20 answers · asked by Shinkirou Hasukage 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Bad Cosmo, the Dalai Lama did NOT say that!
2006-09-25 07:03:17 · update #1
romanska: Yeah, I do. Kudos to you, you have understood the two hardest ones! Most people have trouble comprehending Lao Tzu.
2006-09-25 07:12:07 · update #2
Anne Tykkreist: I think you got to the bottom of it: the only good knowledge is the knowledge of our ignorance, anything else is useless.
2006-09-25 07:20:46 · update #3
Learning is learning as in lessons, it is cumulative, while knowledge is composed of many individual facts...
2006-09-25 07:31:41 · update #4
confucious and lao tzu are a bit contradictory. Where Confuciuos says learning is important, lao tzu condends that knowledge is useless. So, can you separate learning from knowledge? Perhaps...perhaps not. Taken individually, each quote has meaning, meaning that can each be truthful depending on context. I find the ancient chinese philosophies great exercises for the mind, but not hard and fast rules of life. Example: I see the points of lao tzu's final 2 quotes here, but find them oversimplified and just not true. However, his first 2 seem right on the money. But upon putting them together you can get something like "you cannot discover truth by accumulation of knowledge" but if you recognize "you do not know" knowledge can be very helpful in finding truth.
2006-09-25 07:11:39 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
On one airplane there is left and suitable. and there's a call between left and suitable. and each person is awareness. and that they are incompatible with one yet another. On yet another airplane there is now no longer a call. the two left and suitable are the two component to the comparable ingredient on a decrease airplane. yet however the decrease airplane isn't lost the two. it may look unusual to pass to a airplane the place there is no decision, yet yet that's constantly the alternative that could be made each and every time someone realises that the alternative is there. All those guy or woman judgements and comparisons vanish on a greater airplane, one that has constantly been there. there's a splash clue there approximately "the place" a greater airplane is or isn't to be got here across. And which direction it works in. that is no longer that the strategies takes a greater airplane. that is that the better airplane consists of the strategies.
2016-10-01 08:39:12 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yeah, you should chunk this up into several questions, maybe one question for each quote.
In general, they look good to me. Lao Tzu and Confucius are both known for their wisdome. Most stuff I've read from them I couldn't disagree with.
2006-09-25 06:59:10 · answer #3 · answered by I ♥ AUG 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I agree with them
I find no fault.
I quote something myself when it comes to the Education Field and lack of it in America
"We train your minds, you teach yourselves..."
-- John Houseman speaking the creators lines in the opening of the TV series "The Paper Chase" which is about Law School. It applies to all learning. A untrained mind is a scattered collection of words and concepts. A data base without a program to organize it. Mental anarchy.
2006-09-25 07:03:55 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
This one could be the Yahoo Answers Religion & Spirituality motto.
“Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous”
- Confucius -
2006-09-25 06:59:19 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I tend to agree. It seems that the more you know, the more aware you become of how much more there is to know. The more I read, the more confused I get because there are so many contradictions in what I read. Those are some excellent and true quotes
2006-09-25 06:59:45 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
i agree with the last two. i like the motto 'ignorance is bliss' for example all this talk of healthy food, how many of us are actually happy trying to chew cement (by this i refer to all thouse disgusting bran cereals) in the morning? would we not be much happier eating fruit loops and not knowing that they are bad for us. also a good example is 10 yrs ago or so when i was a kid kids knew alot less abt serious grown up stuff like war, sex , politics , pedofiles etc and we were way happier then the kids of this generation. dnt u agree?
2006-09-25 07:05:38 · answer #7 · answered by Belosnezhka (aka Gex) 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Knowledge without discernment is useless - Lucky Fokker
2006-09-25 06:59:49 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
1, 2, 4, and 5 are reasonable.
2006-09-25 07:00:54 · answer #9 · answered by lenny 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I like these better...
"Learn the rules so you know how to break them properly" - Dalai Lama
"Only if there is a God who created man is man worth anything beyond the chemicals of which he is composed." - Dennis Prager
2006-09-25 06:59:15 · answer #10 · answered by Bad Cosmo 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋