Grenville Kleiser Quotes

If any man can convince me and bring home to me that I do not think or act aright, gladly will I change; for I search after truth, by which man never yet was harmed. But he is harmed who abideth on still in his deception and ignorance.

I am not ashamed to confess that I am ignorant of what I do not know.

The most useful piece of learning for the uses of life is to unlearn what is untrue.

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

Success is a wonderful thing, but it tends not to be the sort of experience that we learn from. We enjoy it; perhaps we even deserve it. But we don't acquire wisdom from it.

If you don't know something, admit it. But, try to impress them with what you do know.

Knowing what I don't know helps me every day.

I am not wise, but I can always learn.

One becomes great when he comes to the realization that what he knows is very little.

Humility is the doorway 2 truth & clarity of objectives... it's the doorway 2 learning.

To conceal ignorance is to increase it. An honest confession of it, however, gives ground for the hope that it will diminish some day or the other.

I don't know anything about anything. The only difference between then and now is this: I may know more than I used to but my wisdom pales in comparison to that which I have yet to learn

Man is wise only while in search of wisdom; when he imagines he has attained it, he is a fool.

It's nothing to be ashamed of. There comes a time in everything when you don't know something.

You know that you know nothing. Find out that knowledge.

Someone has said,"Education is going from an unconscious to conscious awareness of one's ignorance."..No one has a corner on wisdom. All the name-dropping in the world does not heighten the significance of our character. If anything, it reduces it. Our acute need is to cultivate a willingness to learn and to remain teachable.

Who does not understand should either learn, or be silent.

Only one who has learned much can fully appreciate his ignorance.

It's a wise person, I guess, who knows he's dumb, and an honest person who knows he's a liar. And it's a dumb person, I guess, whose convinced he's wise...-Bob Slocum

Acknowledging what you don't know is the dawning of wisdom.

Learning is the very essence of humility . . .

When you come to see you are not as wise today as you thought you were yesterday, you are wiser today.

I AM IGNORANT of absolute truth. But I am humble before my ignorance and therein lies my honor and my reward.

Nothing is so good for an ignorant man as silence; and if he was sensible of this he would not be ignorant.

The man who realizes his ignorance has taken the first step toward knowledge.