Sometimes you find the same thought expressed in the writings of different religious traditions, I thought it might be interesting to compare and list these. One thing that comes to mind is:
"To recognize one's knowlede as ignorance, this is a noble insight. To regard one's ignorance as knowledge, this is mental sickness." - Tao Te Ching
"If someone thinks he has acquired knowledge of something, he does not yet know it as he ought to know it."- 1 Cor 8:2
I believe there is a proverb along these lines too, and maybe a Buddhist saying if I'm not mistaken. Anyone have others to add or other points with this kind of parallels?
"It is not so much that you use your mind wrongly--you usually don't use it at all. It uses you. This is the disease." -Eckhart Tolle, The Power of Now
Ah, and Confucius basically said do not do unto others what you do not want others to do to you. I don't know that who said it first really matters though, it doesn't necessarily mean the one that said it later got it from the one who said it first, it may be that they simply made the same observation. You'd expect that to be the case if it is one of those truths that most would agree on.
"It is not so much that you use your mind wrongly--you usually don't use it at all. It uses you. This is the disease." -Eckhart Tolle, The Power of Now
