John Selden Quotes

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

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

Ignorance is bold and knowledge reserved.

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

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

A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.

Vast is the field of Science. The more a man knows, the more he will find he has to know.

I was born not knowing and have had only a little time to change that here and there.

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

Let ignorance talk as it will, learning has its value.

The more we know, the more we realize there is to know.

The more you learn, the more you realize how much there is to learn.

The learning and knowledge that we have, is, at the most, but little compared with that of which we are ignorant.

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

He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever.

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

The more one learns, the more he understands his ignorance.

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

Granny sighed. "You have learned something," she said, and thought it safe to insert a touch of sternness into her voice. "They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it is not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance.

The difference between a learned man and an ignorant one is the same as that between a living man and a corpse.

Our knowledge is a little island in a great ocean of nonknowledge.

They know enough who know how to learn.

I am not young enough to know everything.

To be proud of learning is the greatest ignorance.

It is no good to try to stop knowledge from going forward. Ignorance is never better than knowledge.