Jeremy Taylor Quotes

As you get older, you're humbled by the fact that you're a moron.

I am not young enough to know everything.

If you're smart, you'll always be humble. You can learn all you want, but there'll always be somebody who's never read a book who'll know twice what you know.

He who lives without folly isn't so wise as he thinks.

Don't pretend to know everything. I've been blessed to work with a lot of veteran actors, and I soak up lessons from them like a sponge.

Be wiser than other people if you can, but do not tell them so.

The more you are in this business, the more humbled by it you become.

It is best for the wise man not to seem wise.

If you realize you aren't so wise today as you thought you were yesterday, you're wiser today.

It's what you learn after you know it all that counts.

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

Never seem wiser, nor more learned, than the people you are with. Wear your learning, like your watch, in a private pocket: and do not merely pull it out and strike it; merely to show that you have one.

Wear your learning like your watch, in a private pocket; and do not pull it out, and strike it, merely to show that you have one.

We have to learn from our mistakes. But it's part of my game; I won't be arrogant of saying that I will keep doing this. We have to learn from our mistakes.

You try to live the experience but keep your feet on the ground, not let it go to your head, because that's when you start making mistakes.

If a man knew anything, he would sit in a corner and be modest; but he is such an ignorant peacock, that he goes bustling up and down, and hits on extraordinary discoveries.

Many would be wise if they did not think themselves wise.

The wise speak only of what they know

The wisest man is he who does not fancy that he is so at all.

I am sufficiently proud of my knowing something to be modest about my not knowing all.

Understand that you don't know it all. You don't know anything yet. What you've been taught is great, but always go with common sense. And don't marry your first love.

The wise are not so much wiser than others as respecters of their own wisdom.

If history teaches anything, it teaches humility.

A wise man heedeth all things, and in his own eyes is a fool.

The silent treasuring up of knowledge; learning without satiety; and instructing others without being wearied: which one of these things belongs to me?