Exploring the Analects

Exploring the Analects

Book 9: 《子罕》 Zi Han (The Master Shunned)

《子罕》 Passage 9.8

子曰:「吾有知乎哉?無知也。有鄙夫問於我,空空如也,我叩其兩端而竭焉。」

Legge Translation (1861)

The Master said: "Am I indeed possessed of knowledge? I am not knowing. But if a mean person, who appears quite empty-like, ask anything of me, I set it forth from one end to the other, and exhaust it."

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