Thomas Chandler Haliburton Quotes

Knowing what I don't know helps me every day.

I wonder whether if I had an education I should have been more or less a fool that I am.

Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.

The more I read, the more I realise what I don't know.

A good education should leave much to be desired.

The learned man knows that he is ignorant.

No man should escape our universities without knowing how little he knows.

I was born not knowing and have had only a little time to change that here and there.

A man only becomes wise when he begins to calculate the approximate depth of his ignorance.

Success is a wonderful thing, but it tends not to be the sort of experience that we learn from. We enjoy it; perhaps we even deserve it. But we don't acquire wisdom from it.

It is impossible to make people understand their ignorance, for it requires knowledge to perceive it; and, therefore, he that can perceive it hath it not.

Going to college is neither necessary nor sufficient to be well-educated.

To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge.

I think I'm pretty smart. I think I'm pretty clever. But there's a lot that you hone in on when you finish your education.

It is only through reading that one can understand how people are smarter than you and what they have left behind for you.

The more one learns, the more he understands his ignorance.

I don't know anything about anything. The only difference between then and now is this: I may know more than I used to but my wisdom pales in comparison to that which I have yet to learn

Wisdom comes to those who learn nothing, unlearn everything.

Wisdom tends to grow in proportion to one's awareness of one's ignorance.

The man who realizes his ignorance has taken the first step toward knowledge.

What I've come to know is that in life, it's not always the questions we ask, but rather our ability to hear the answers that truly enriches our understanding. Never, never stop learning.

Education helps you to be a well-rounded person, period. It teaches you how to take in information and data, process it, and use it for life building. Education was key in my family. You were going to college.

I would be a poorer person if the only things I knew were what I had found out for myself.

A human being is not attaining his full heights until he is educated.