Thomas Huxley Quotes

Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.

He that knew all that learning ever writ, Knew only this - that he knew nothing yet.

True, a little learning is a dangerous thing, but it still beats total ignorance.

It is impossible to make people understand their ignorance, for it requires knowledge to perceive it; and, therefore, he that can perceive it hath it not.

The longer I'm alive, the more I realize how little I know. Pretending that you know everything about every topic, and being very vocal about it? That's an instant turnoff.

The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance.

Ignorance is bold and knowledge reserved.

To be proud of learning is the greatest ignorance.

The greater the step forward in knowledge, the greater is the one taken backward in search of wisdom.

The more I read, the more I realise what I don't know.

Indeed, the most important product of knowledge is ignorance.

The learned man knows that he is ignorant.

A little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but a little want of knowledge is also a dangerous thing.

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

I was born not knowing and have had only a little time to change that here and there.

We know accurately only when we know little, with knowledge doubt increases.

I'm not very wise to many things.

If a little knowledge was a dangerous thing, a lot was lethal.

A college education shows a man how little other people know.

A little learning, indeed, may be a dangerous thing, but the want of learning is a calamity to any people.

A little learning is a dangerous thing, but a lot of ignorance is just as bad.

He who learns but does not think, is lost! He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger.

Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; wisdom is humble that it knows no more.

Those who have knowledge, don't predict. Those who predict, don't have knowledge.

While some of us may know than others about certain things, it is the thinnest slice of all that is, or could be known. In that sense, we are all profoundly ignorant.