Charles de Lint Quotes

For other people, I can't speak - but, personally, I haven't gotten wise on anything. Certainly, I've been through this and that; and when it happens again, I say to myself, Here it is again. But that doesn't seem to help me. In my opinion, I, personally, have gotten steadily sillier and sillier - and that's a fact.

Nonsense! The most hopelessly stupid man is he who is not aware that he is wise.

A fool who recognises his own ignorance is thereby in fact a wise man, but a fool who considers himself wise - that is what one really calls a fool.

I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.

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.

Neither man nor woman can be worth anything until they have discovered that they are fools.

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

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.

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

The one thing that I keep learning over and over again is that I don't know nothing. I mean, that's my life lesson.

A really big thing I've learned - and I think it's so liberating - is when you realize no one knows what they're doing.

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

The fool who recognizes his foolishness, is a wise man. But the fool who believes himself a wise man, he really is a fool.

Whose work is it but your own to open your eyes? But indeed the business of the universe is to make such a fool out of you that you will know yourself for one, and begin to be wise.

The wise know too well their weakness to assume infallibility; and he who knows most knows best how little he knows.

To think to be wise alone is a very great folly.

The greatest fool is he who thinks he is not one and all others are.

Let him be wise, or let me be blind; don't let me, she hoped concretely, don't let me know too surely what he thinks of me.

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

The first thing you learn in life is you're a fool. The last thing you learn in life is you're the same fool.

The fool who thinks he is wise is just a fool. The fool who knows he is a fool is wise indeed.

I only know when I don't know a thing. My uncle has taught me that wisdom lies in that.

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

He who knows best knows how little he knows.

Every 10 years, I know less about love and relationships. The smarter I get, the less I know.