Dave Eggers Quotes

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

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

The one thing that I keep learning over and over again is that I don't know nothing. I mean, that's my life lesson.

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

And I like asking questions, to keep learning; people with big egos might not want to look unsure.

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

There's no blueprint for where I should be. I see myself as a young, good actor who still has a lot to learn. There's nobody at any point in their career who is the finished article.

I don't want to be perceived as someone who has it all figured out. I certainly don't feel entitled or like I'm a superstar. I'm still growing, learning, and figuring things out.

I am not going to look too far forward - I've still got a lot to learn.

The thing I believe in most in the world is my own fallibility, so I am willing to believe that I may be wrong too.

Learning is the very essence of humility . . .

What I've come to know is that in life, it's not always the questions we ask, but rather our ability to hear the answers that truly enriches our understanding. Never, never stop learning.

If we become increasingly humble about how little we know, we may be more eager to search.

Don't be too proud to take lessons. I'm not.

He who knows best knows how little he knows.

Things that I felt absolutely sure of but a few years ago, I do not believe now. This thought makes me see more clearly how foolish it would be to expect all men to agree with me.

It's not a case of: 'Read this book and then you'll think differently. I've written this book, and I don't think differently.

You know, people sometimes say to me, 'Do you prefer to do this or that, act or do stand-up or write' but the thing that I enjoy most is the difference between all of them, because you're always learning. I don't go around thinking of myself as a great anything. I'm actually lucky to have the chance to fail at all of them.

I don't pretend I know everything.

I always told, Sandra Bullock was my student when she was younger, I always told her it's important that we hold on to our insecurity, the wisdom of insecurity.

Against my will, in the course of my travels, the belief that everything worth knowing was known at Cambridge gradually wore off. In this respect my travels were very useful to me.

Seriously I suspected I was a good actor, though I didn't know it during 'Monsoon Wedding.' Now I realize the more I learn, the less I know about acting... and life.

If I am fool, it is, at least, a doubting one; and I envy no one the certainty of his self-approved wisdom.

I guess I didn't feel confident enough to be searching in a big public way. I was very content at the time to toil in obscurity on things that I thought might point me in certain directions or teach me certain things - not knowing what that would be.

He only profits from praise who values criticism.