Explore 'Humility'-Themed Quotes & Sayings

Only one who has learned much can fully appreciate his ignorance.

Louis L'Amour

There is a plague on Man, the opinion that he knows something.

Michel de Montaigne

A foolish man thinks he knows everything. A wise man knows he doesn’t.

Amanda Hocking

The more one endeavors to sound the depths of his ignorance the deeper the chasm appears.

Amos Bronson Alcott

Having to know the answers puts in terrible positions from which to learn.

Daniel Dae Kim

What a life in science really teaches you is the vastness of our ignorance.

David Eagleman

All our knowledge – past, present, and future – is nothing compared to what we will never know.

Konstantin Tsiolkovsky

Knowing that we don’t know it’s humility; thinking that we know what we don’t know, is sickness.

Laozi

To know anything well involves a profound sensation of ignorance.

John Ruskin

Conversation would be vastly improved by the constant use of four simple words: I do not know.

Andre Maurois

Humble, honest, ignorance is one of the finest flowers of the human spirit

Kenneth E. Boulding

The first and wisest of them all professed To know this only, that he nothing knew.

John Milton

The utmost extent of man’s knowledge, is to know that he knows nothing.

Joseph Addison

Admitting one’s ignorance is the first step in acquiring knowledge.

Socrates

If you think you understand it, that only shows that you don’t know the first thing about it.

Niels Bohr

One of the best ways to know you’re completely wrong, is to behave as if you’re complete right.

Clay Shirky

To know is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge.

Confucius

But I know that all the things I do know are very small compared with the things that I don’t know.

Philip Pullman

What we know here is very little, but what we are ignorant of is immense.

Pierre-Simon Laplace

We go about our daily lives understanding almost nothing of the world.

Carl Sagan

Conceit is a privilege of the ignorant; the wise man is humble because he knows how little he knows.

Isabel Allende

Only fools think they’re wise; the rest of us just muddle through as we can.

Charles de Lint

The biggest idiot you will meet in life will be the person that thinks they know it all.

Christopher Jones

It is impossible to begin to learn that which one thinks one already knows.

Epictetus

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