Benjamin Franklin Quotes

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

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

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

Humility is the first step towards learning. You can’t learn until you are humble enough to realize there is something for you to learn.

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

To be proud of learning is the greatest ignorance.

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

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

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

'How do you know so much about everything?' was asked of a very wise and intelligent man; and the answer was 'By never being afraid or ashamed to ask questions as to anything of which I was ignorant.'

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

The brighter you are, the more you have to learn.

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

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

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

Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.

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

Knowledge fills a large brain; it merely inflates a small one.

Sense shines with a double luster when it is set in humility. An able yet humble man is a jewel worth a kingdom.

I'm not the dumbest guy that ever lived.

I'm not like a high intellectual.

Arrogance diminishes wisdom.

Don't let your heart get big because of your knowledge. Take counsel with the ignorant as well as with the scholar.

Knowledge and wisdom, far from being one, Have ofttimes no connection. Knowledge dwells In heads replete with thoughts of other men, Wisdom in minds attentive to their own. Knowledge is proud that he has learned so much, Wisdom is humble that he knows no more.

I think I'm pretty smart. I think I'm pretty clever. But there's a lot that you hone in on when you finish your education.