William Cowper Quotes

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

The learned man knows that he is ignorant.

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

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

I am not young enough to know everything.

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

I'm not very wise to many things.

When you know a thing, to hold that you know it, and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it - this is knowledge.

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

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

If I don't have wisdom, I can teach you only ignorance.

I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.

I'm not the dumbest guy that ever lived.

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.

Ignorance is bold and knowledge reserved.

If we become increasingly humble about how little we know, we may be more eager to search.

I have thousands of opinions still - but that is down from millions - and, as always, I know nothing.

The beginning of wisdom is to desire it.

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

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

He who knows best knows how little he knows.

Fullness of knowledge always means some understanding of the depths of our ignorance; and that is always conducive to humility and reverence.

To know what you know and what you do not know, that is true knowledge.

I'm not quite pompous enough to think of myself as an educator or a man capable of definitive refutation of falsehoods.

To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.