Charles Lamb Quotes

Modesty: the gentle art of enhancing your charm by pretending not to be aware of it.

I was never able to master the virtue of humility but I was able to master the appearance of humility.

Wear your learning like your watch, in a private pocket; and do not pull it out, and strike it, merely to show that you have one.

A gentleman does not appear to know more or to be more than those with whom he is thrown into company.

True wisdom is to know the extent of what you don't know quite as well as you know what you do know.

Modesty should accompany youth.

One becomes great when he comes to the realization that what he knows is very little.

It is a species of coquetry to make a parade of never practising it.

Anna Petrovna: Never talk to women about your own good qualities. Let them find out for themselves.

Nor am I ashamed, as some are, to confess my ignorance of those matters with which I am unacquainted.

I have seldom seen much ostentation and much learning met together.

The wise know too well their weakness to assume infallibility; and he who knows most knows best how little he knows.

If a young lady has that discretion and modesty without which all knowledge is little worth, she will never make an ostentatious parade of it, because she will rather be intent on acquiring more than on displaying what she has.

I am sufficiently proud of my knowing something to be modest about my not knowing all.

On the one hand, philosophy is to keep us thinking about things that we may come to know, and on the other hand to keep us modestly aware of how much that seems like knowledge isn't knowledge

The Man That Knowz Something Knowz That He Knowz Nothing At All.

Knowing what you can not do is more important than knowing what you can do. In fact, that's good taste.

Of course, I don't know everything. Considering the infinite amount of knowledge that one could acquire in a virtually innumerable array of intellectual disciplines, it's probably more accurate to say that I don't know anything.

Even if I am but a pretender to wisdom, that in itself is philosophy.

I don't know anything and neither do you.

The wise are not so much wiser than others as respecters of their own wisdom.

Do you know a young and beautiful woman who is not ready to flirt-just a little?

You don't get anything worth getting, by pretending to know things you don't know.

Humility is always proof of intelligence

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