Charles Caleb Colton Quotes

It would not be wise for us to say we know what we don't know.

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

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

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

They only are wise who know that they know nothing.

Discretion has been termed the better part of valour, and it is more certain, that diffidence is the better part of knowledge.

I think the philosophy that we don't know as much as we think we know resonates throughout my work.

Wisdom is keeping a sense of fallibility of all our views and opinions.

I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.

Let your tongue become accustomed to the words “I do not know”.

I'm not one of these people who thinks I know all the answers.

Our great power does not mean we can do whatever we want whenever we want, nor should we assume we have all the wisdom and knowledge necessary to succeed.

I'd never be overly confident about anything.

The wise speak only of what they know

Let each of us boldly and honestly say: How little it is that I really know!

It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom.

I am very conscious that I am not wise at all.

The wise man is one who knows what he does not know.

Wisest is she who knows she does not know.

Knowing what you don't know is more useful than being brilliant.

Teach thy tongue to say 'I do not know', and thou shalt progress.

I am not ashamed to confess that I am ignorant of what I do not know.

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

I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.

He who lives without folly isn't so wise as he thinks.