Elie Wiesel Quotes

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

There is but a slight difference between the man who may be said to know nothing and him who thinks he knows everything.

A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool.

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

The only thing more dangerous than ignorance is arrogance.

The ignorant are to be found as much among the educated as among the uneducated.

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

Knowledge is the barrier to knowing. When knowledge is dropped, knowing flowers.

What I learned is that it's arrogant to be certain of anything. The world is a complex place and only idiots or assholes think they know it all.

The man who thinks he knows something does not yet know as he ought to know.

When a wise man does not understand, he says: "I do not understand." The fool and the uncultured are ashamed of their ignorance. They remain silent when a question could bring them wisdom.

To know yet to think that one does not know is best; Not to know yet to think that one knows will lead to difficulty.

Indeed, the most important product of knowledge is ignorance.

The learned man knows that he is ignorant.

To know, is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge.

I've reached the age of self-knowledge, so I don't know anything. People who claim that they know something are responsible for most of the fuss in the world.

The first step towards knowledge is to know that we are ignorant.

Indeed he knows not how to know who knows not also how to un-know.

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

I'm not the dumbest guy that ever lived.

The greatest wisdom is to realize one's lack of it.

No one, however smart, however well educated … is the suppository of all wisdom.

Consult with the ignorant as with the wise.

Call a man 'ignorant,' and you have license to show the world your vast fund of knowledge and wise him up.

In seeking wisdom thou art wise; in imagining that thou hast attained it - thou art a fool.