Dear Keren, Rett and friends,

Confucius has something close:
The knower acknowledges what he knows and what he don't.
[translated from the Chinese with a Buddhist flavour by me]

A scholar's version is found here:
http://www.confucius.org/lunyu/ed0217.htm

Confucius was speaking in a context of social unrest and political
turbulence in China of his time, though.

metta,
Yong Peng.

--- In Pali@yahoogroups.com, rett wrote:

Breaking up sandhis and correcting a little typo gives: so hi aavuso
bhagavaa jaana.m jaanaati passa.m passati.

ñaa.namoli/bodhi translate: "For knowing, the Blessed One knows;
seeing, he sees."