Robert Andrews Millikan Quotes

I'm not very wise to many things.

There are some things I wish I never knew, but I am grateful for things that I have learned, too.

The beginning of wisdom is fear.

I think humility - which I think is a very good value to adopt - is basically an extension of understanding your own ignorance.

He who knows best knows how little he knows.

To know what you know and what you do not know, that is true knowledge.

Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.

The learned man knows that he is ignorant.

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

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

The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance.

I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.

The more you learn, the more you realize how much there is to learn.

The learning and knowledge that we have, is, at the most, but little compared with that of which we are ignorant.

To know that we know what we know, and to know that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge.

The greatest wisdom is to realize one's lack of it.

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

It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance.

My personal growth stems from the humility with which I navigate the world, namely with a reverence for all of the knowledge that I've yet to learn but that is out there available to me.

I don't study to know more, but to ignore less.

I do not know everything; still many things I understand.

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

Understanding that rests in what it does not understand is the finest.

What you know, you know, what you don't know, you don't know. This is true wisdom.

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