“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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