"True knowledge is not attained by thinking. It is what you are; it is what you become."
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"To know, is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge. When you say something, say what you know. When you don't know something, say you don't know. That is knowledge."
"True knowledge is when one knows the limitations of one's knowledge."
"True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing. And in knowing that you know nothing, that makes you the smartest of all."
"There is a down-and-outness under true knowledge and a childlike happy arising from it."
"Knowledge does not corrupt, unless it is arrogant; but then it is not true knowledge."