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What does Confucius mean when he says "To know what you know and what you do not know, is true knowledge."

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basically he’s saying that true knowledge is knowing everything you already know but also knowing that there’s still so much you don’t know.
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Confucius gave great importance to education. He devoted his time to gain new insights and learned from renowned scholars of his time. He started his own school at the age of 22. At that time, China was undergoing a state of ideological turmoil; all around there was injustice, war, and evil.

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