“Real knowledge is to know the extent of one’s ignorance.”
Confucius
“He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever.”
Chinese proverb
“I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.”
Pablo Picasso
“I conceive that a knowledge of books is the base on which all other knowledge rests.”
George Washington
“The little I know, I owe to my ignorance.”
Sacha Guitry
“The brighter you are, the more you have to learn.”
Don Herold
“Common sense is instinct. Enough of it is genius.”
George Bernard Shaw
“The art of becoming wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.”
William James
“Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.”
Samuel Coleridge
“Knowledge is power and enthusiasm pulls the switch.”
Steve Droke
“History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.”
Abba Eban
“He that never changes his opinions, never corrects his mistakes, will never be wiser on the morrow than he is today.”
Tyron Edwards
“Imagination is more important than knowledge, for knowledge is limited while imagination embraces the entire world.”
Albert Einstein
“Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I’m not sure about the former.”
Albert Einstein
“What did you ask at school today?”
Richard Fenyman
“Wisdom is what you get for a lifetime of listening when you’d have prepared to talk.”
Doug Larson
“You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions.”
Naguib Mahfouz
“To know one thing, you must know the opposite.”
Henry Moore
“The doer alone learneth.
Friedrich Nietzsche
“I was gratified to be able to answer promptly. I said I don’t know.”
Mark Twain
“If you learn from defeat, you haven’t really lost.”
Zig Ziglar
“I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.”
Galileo Galilei
“There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.”
Frank Zappa
“Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them.”
Samuel Palmer
“Genius is nothing but a great aptitude for patience.”
George Louis DeBuffon
“The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.”
Lao-Tzu
“Men give me credit for some genius. All the genius I have lies in this; when I have a subject in hand, I study it profoundly. Day and night it is before me. My mind becomes pervaded with it. Then the effort I have made is what people are pleased to call the fruit of genius. It is the fruit of labor and thought.”
Alexander Hamilton
“The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposing ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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