Joseph Hall Quotes

Do not be an arrogant scholar, for scholarship cannot subsist with arrogance.

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.

If you would learn a thing, straightway declare yourself a professor of it!

I have seldom seen much ostentation and much learning met together. The sun, rising and declining, makes long shadows; at mid day, when he is highest, none at all.

Learning is the very essence of humility . . .

If thou hast wit and learning, add to it wisdom and modesty.

One of the main goals of self-education is to eradicate that vanity in us without which we would never have been educated.

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

I don't really go for the swagger thing too much.

The conclusion I came to was that even if I couldn't sell books, I still liked the process of writing.

I am not young enough to know everything.

If you're smart, you'll always be humble. You can learn all you want, but there'll always be somebody who's never read a book who'll know twice what you know.

To be proud of learning is the greatest ignorance.

I hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about.

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

I'm not quite pompous enough to think of myself as an educator or a man capable of definitive refutation of falsehoods.

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

One may be humble out of pride.

Don't pretend to know everything. I've been blessed to work with a lot of veteran actors, and I soak up lessons from them like a sponge.

The knowledge of yourself will preserve you from vanity.

I didn't say I was that smart, I said I went to class and I enjoyed what I was doing.

If modesty disappeared, so would exhibitionism.

I'm sure that I don't know everything I want to know. I have so much more to learn.

I studied history when I was at school, at A-level, actually. I wouldn't profess to being very knowledgeable though, no.

O be very sure That no man will learn anything at all, Unless he first will learn humility.