Neil deGrasse Tyson Quotes

If you already think you are correct and there's nothing else you can learn in life, then I think you are in trouble.

The more a man knows, the more willing he is to learn-the less a man knows, the more positive he is that he knows everything.

Distinguish open-minded people from closed-minded people. Open-minded people seek to learn by asking questions; they realize that what they know is little in relation to what there is to know and recognize that they might be wrong. Closed-minded people always tell you what they know, even if they know hardly anything about the subject being discussed. They are typically made uncomfortable by being around those who know a lot more about a subject, unlike open-minded people who are thrilled by such company.

When you think you know it all, there's not much that you'll learn.

We learn nothing by being right.

At the simplest level, only people who know they do not know everything will be curious enough to find things out.

Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.

If you start with the mindset that you know nothing, you will learn a lot that nobody knew before.

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

Indeed, the most important product of knowledge is ignorance.

I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him.

I'm quite a curious person. I don't mind being the one who doesn't know things, a role I often play in QI.

It's most presumptuous to believe we already know all the answers and will never get any more big surprises.

I'm sure that I don't know everything I want to know. I have so much more to learn.

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

Always just remember that you can never know all; you're always going to be learning; there's always going to be something new. I don't think you'll ever have it all figured out.

I know nothing, except the fact of my ignorance.

The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all.

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

I'm open-minded and never think I know everything. I actually feel like I know nothing, and that allows me to learn on a different level.

I hope I continue to learn. If I don't, then I know everything.

Wisdom comes out of dialogue so you have to develop the capacity to expose your own ignorance in order that they may discover their own wisdom.

It really is very true that the more you do, the less you know. I try to keep myself very open-minded in that sense.

The only thing more dangerous than ignorance is arrogance.

The more you think you know, the more closed-minded you'll be.