Jean de la Bruyere Quotes

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.

A dogmatic tone is generally inspired by abysmal ignorance. The man who knows nothing thinks he is informing others of something which he has that moment learnt; the man who knows a great deal can scarcely believe that people are ignorant of what he is telling them, and speaks more diffidently.

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

I know nothing, except the fact of my ignorance.

The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt. Even those of the intelligent who believe that they have a nostrum are too individualistic to combine with other intelligent men from whom they differ on minor points.

If you would learn a thing, straightway declare yourself a professor of it!

The more we learn the more we realize how little we know.

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

Strange about learning; the farther I go the more I see that I never knew even existed. A short while ago I foolishly thought I could learn everything - all the knowledge in the world. Now I hope only to be able to know of its existence, and to understand one grain of it. Is there time?

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

Wisdom tends to grow in proportion to one's awareness of one's ignorance.

No one is so wrong as the man who knows all the answers.

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

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

Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, and not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science.

It is a tragedy of the world that no one knows what he doesn't know - the less a man knows, the more sure it is that he knows everything.

A college education shows a man how little other people know.

Folly always knows the answer.

Indeed he knows not how to know who knows not also how to un-know.

Dogmatism and skepticism are both, in a sense, absolute philosophies; one is certain of knowing, the other of not knowing. What philosophy should dissipate is certainty, whether of knowledge or ignorance.

What a wise man knows seems so plain and simple to himself that he easily makes the mistake of thinking it to be so for others.

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

I know everything that's out there that's worth knowing about.

I don't study to know more, but to ignore less.

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