Joe Wurzelbacher Quotes

He who knows best knows how little he knows.

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

I know nothing, because I know too much, and understand not nearly enough and never will.

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

The learned man knows that he is ignorant.

I don't claim to know everything. I claim to be a seeker of knowledge.

Without feeling abashed by my ignorance, I confess that I am absolutely unable to say. In the absence of an appearance of learning, my answer has at least one merit, that of perfect sincerity.

I do not know it all and do not claim to.

If I cannot add to my own low level of understanding, I could ill afford to try to raise that of others, seeing that it belongs to our Creator and Lord to give much or little.

I'm really a very weak musicologist. Wish it weren't so, but there's only so much you can dig deeply into in one lifetime, as if you hadn't noticed.

My mind is just a product of 50 years of being taught. I'm no smarter than anyone else, but I've been taught by some wonderful people.

If you are conscious to yourself that you possess more knowledge upon some subject than others of your standing, reflect that have had greater opportunity …

Luckily, I'm not educated. If you act like an illiterate man, your learning will never stop.

I hope I continue to learn. If I don't, then I know everything.

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

He stared at his feet. “I’m still very ignorant,” he said, “but at least I’m ignorant about really important things.

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

I try to learn as much as I can because I know nothing compared to what I need to know.

That knowledge which stops at what it does not know, is the highest knowledge.

He, O men, is the wisest, who, like Socrates, knows that his wisdom is in truth worth nothing.

Learning is the very essence of humility . . .

You want to know a little about a lot.

The wisest of you men is he who has realized, like Socrates, that in respect of wisdom he is really worthless.