Cree Summer Quotes

There is a time to speak and a time to listen, and sometimes people need to shut up.

Choose silence of all virtues, for by it you hear other men's imperfections, and conceal your own.

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

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

I sometimes let people down, especially when I was younger. I was cavalier about what people told me. Part of growing up is learning when to shut up.

I know nothing, except the fact of my ignorance.

The best rules to form a young man, are, to talk little, to hear much, to reflect alone upon what has passed in company, to distrust one's own opinions, and value others that deserve it.

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

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

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

A certain degree of intellectual humility is a good thing.

Never seem more learned than the people you are with. Wear your learning like a pocket watch and keep it hidden. Do not pull it out to count the hours, but give the time when you are asked.

I'm interested in listening to the people who walk in the door. If your ego and your accomplishments stop you from listening, then they've taught you nothing.

To admit ignorance is to exhibit wisdom.

Genuine wisdom is usually conspicuous through modesty and silence.

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

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.

The more you know the less you need to say.

As soon as you think you know someone else's truth better than they do, you are in deep water.

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

Humility and knowledge in poor clothes excel pride and ignorance in costly attire.

The learned man knows that he is ignorant.

It takes a great man to give sound advice tactfully, but a greater to accept it graciously.

He who knows, does not speak. He who speaks, does not know.