Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.
Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
MG Mahatma GandhiLeader & reformer · 1869–1948What this quote means
Hold life's urgency and its long horizon at once: live fully today, yet keep learning as though you had forever.
Context
Leader of India's nonviolent independence movement, quoted worldwide on change, peace, and conviction.
This line is among the quotes by Mahatma Gandhi that readers return to on wisdom — a small, portable reminder to carry into the morning.
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