Hi Mitts!
This phrase is attributed to Confucius.
2:17 ?Shall I teach you the meaning of knowledge? When you know a
thing to recognize that you know it; and when you do not, to know that
you do not know?that is knowledge.?
Note: Numbers indicate chapter and verse where the saying is found in The Analects.
Source: Confucius. The Analects. Translated by William Edward
Soothill. New York: Dover Publications, Inc., 1995.
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From Proverbs and Aphorisms on Wisdom at Westminster College:
To know that you know what you know, and to know that you don't know
what you do not know, that is knowledge (Thoreau, quoting Confucius,
Walden, p.7) (Mike Leskanic)
Westminster College
http://www.westminster.edu/staff/brennie/wisdoms/297provs.htm
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From the North County Times:
"To know that you know what you know, and to know that you don't know
what you don't know, that is true wisdom." ---- Confucius.
North County Times
http://www.nctimes.net/news/2002/20020613/93152.html
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It appears that the slight differences in each phrase are due to the translations.
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