Saint Ignatius Quotes

No one should ever say that it was my ignorance if I did or showed forth anything however small according to God's good pleasure; but let this be your conclusion and let it so be thought, that - as is the perfect truth - it was the gift of God.

Because in the school of the Spirit man learns wisdom through humility, knowledge by forgetting, how to speak by silence, how to live by dying.

I found that there were things that God could reveal to me that I could never get myself physically.

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

Wiser, never wise. Smarter, never smart.

It is so pleasant to learn about new things. Every day I find how little I know, but I do not feel discouraged since God has given me an eternity in which to learn more.

The more one learns, the more he understands his ignorance.

I'm not aware of too many things, I know what I know, if you know what I mean.

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

Understanding the knowledge and wisdom of the Qur'an is by far, higher than memorizing.

Obedience to God's will is the secret of spiritual knowledge and insight.

Have read little and understood less.

If, then, knowledge be power, how much more power to we gain through the agency of faith, and what elevation must it give to human character.

I have many deep thoughts in God, but I take my own measure, lest I perish by boasting... For I myself, though I am in chains and can comprehend heavenly things, the ranks of the angels and the hierarchy of principalities, things visible and invisible, for all this I am not yet a disciple.

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

He who knows best knows how little he knows.

I don't know about a lot of things. I read a lot, but a lot of it just passes through me. I don't retain much. I am kind of dumb that way. Or maybe 'I am a simple man,' is a better way to say it.

The learned man knows that he is ignorant.

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

The true mystic is always both humble and compassionate, for she knows that she does not know.

I'm not very wise to many things.

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

I had a lot of experience with people smarter than I am.

The correct description is that we try every day to become more humble when we talk about divinity, we try to realize how little we know and how open minded we should be.

The utmost extent of man's knowledge, is to know that he knows nothing.