Ptahhotep Quotes

Don't let your heart get big because of your knowledge. Take counsel with the ignorant as well as with the scholar.

I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him.

A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.

Fullness of knowledge always means some understanding of the depths of our ignorance; and that is always conducive to humility and reverence.

Indeed, the most important product of knowledge is ignorance.

The learned man knows that he is ignorant.

I'm not very wise to many things.

Doubt grows with knowledge.

When you know a thing, to hold that you know it, and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it - this is knowledge.

The first step towards knowledge is to know that we are ignorant.

Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred to talk.

Men should friendly confer together, and offer one another their gifts and knowledge in love, and try things one with another, and hold that which is best, and not so stand in their own opinion as if they could not err.

In order to have wisdom we must have ignorance.

If I don't have wisdom, I can teach you only ignorance.

Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; wisdom is humble that it knows no more.

Be not arrogant because of that which you know; deal with the ignorant as with the learned

Do not seek advice from the ignorant.

Call a man 'ignorant,' and you have license to show the world your vast fund of knowledge and wise him up.

Who does not understand should either learn, or be silent.

Our knowledge is a little island in a great ocean of nonknowledge.

Ignorance is bold and knowledge reserved.

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

If we become increasingly humble about how little we know, we may be more eager to search.

I have thousands of opinions still - but that is down from millions - and, as always, I know nothing.

The small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify we give the name of knowledge.