Dean Kamen Quotes

I want people to believe in themselves. I want intellectual curiosity. I want someone who realizes that they don't know it all and that they're dying to learn.

At the Brooklyn Ethical Culture School, we learned to express ourselves, and I've been expressing myself ever since.

When people don't have any curiosity about themselves, that is always a bad sign.

I started second-guessing myself and was always questioning myself. I have really learned a lot.

I was a philosophy major as an undergraduate, and I'm just an arrogant little thing. It's hard for me to admit that I can't understand something, let alone not be in charge of it.

All children know when something is wrong and they can't understand something - they never need someone to tell them they're stupid. They need help in solving the problem.

I've grown into a woman and formed my own opinions about the world around me.

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

One thing in life is for certain, the more profoundly baffled you have been in your life, the more open your mind becomes to new ideas.

We have found it of paramount importance that in order to progress, we must recognize our ignorance and leave room for doubt.

The modern world belongs to the half-educated, a rather difficult class, because they do not realize how little they know.

Someone once said that the most important knowledge is knowledge of our own ignorance. Our schools are depriving millions of students of that kind of knowledge by promoting "self-esteem" and encouraging them to have opinions on things of which they are grossly ignorant, if not misinformed.

As long as a person doesn't know what he doesn't know, he doesn't grow

For I found myself embarrassed with so many doubts and errors that it seemed to me that the effort to instruct myself had no effect other than th eincreasing discovery of my own ignorance

The word 'empower' is something that kept coming up in my heart.

Filming 'Glow' helped with my confidence.

I think I've grown over the years and learned about who I am and what I can do and what I can't do.

I nurture people's talents because, at the end of it, that's what they're left with. They're left with themselves.

What I didn't appreciate about myself is that I'm good at coaching leaders.

It took a long time, and a lot of years, for me to get comfortable with myself, like the way I am now.

When you know your self-worth, and you read and you ask questions and you study and you travel, you become free.

We are all good at things - a varied assortment of things - and we all desperately need to find out what those things are for our self-esteem. If there is anything young people need, it is confidence and an identity and a purpose.

I've learned that I'm a lot stronger than I thought I was.

There was a stage in my career, especially with standup, where I felt, because I didn't know why I was doing well, that anyone who would tell me anything; I was sort of like, 'What did they say? Yeah, I'll take that advice.' Now I'm a bit more careful who I choose to listen to.

I want to be a woman who has a little bit more figured out, who doesn't have so many doubts.