Wim Wenders Quotes

As we strive to teach others we must have the humility to acknowledge that we too still have much to learn.

A foolish man thinks he knows everything. A wise man knows he doesn't.

I'm confident that I'm as intelligent as many people, but I know that I'm not as intelligent as some. So in the presence of hyperintelligent people, I'm a shrinking violet because I don't want to look like a fool. I know a little about a lot and a lot about a little.

True wisdom is a thing very extraordinary. Happy are they that have it: and next to them, not those many that think they have it, but those few that are sensible of their own defects and imperfections, and know that they have it not.

Never think that you already know all. However highly you are appraised, always have the courage to say to yourself-I am ignorant.

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

People look at me and think I am an expert in the automobile industry, and I'm not.

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

If you are not egotistical, you will welcome the opportunity to learn more.

The competent programmer is fully aware of the limited size of his own skull. He therefore approaches his task with full humility, and avoids clever tricks like the plague.

I know a lot about a few things - mostly useless things.

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

I'm not an Iran expert.

I'm sure that I don't know everything I want to know. I have so much more to learn.

I'm no genius.

I'm not a genius. I'm just a tremendous bundle of experience.

I studied history when I was at school, at A-level, actually. I wouldn't profess to being very knowledgeable though, no.

O be very sure That no man will learn anything at all, Unless he first will learn humility.

If we learn not humility, we learn nothing.

I don't know much, but I like talking to people who know a lot more than I do.

A little learning is not a dangerous thing to one who does not mistake it for a great deal.

One who is shy will never gain knowledge, nor one who is proud.

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

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.

As soon as I figured out I didn't know anything about music, I was OK. It's when I thought I could learn something that I was in trouble.