Claude Bernard Quotes

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

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

Fear and realisation of ignorance, strong medicines against stupid pride.

If thou hast wit and learning, add to it wisdom and modesty.

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.

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

The more you know the less you need to say.

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

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

He that knew all that learning ever writ, Knew only this - that he knew nothing yet.

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

It is impossible to make people understand their ignorance, for it requires knowledge to perceive it; and, therefore, he that can perceive it hath it not.

The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance.

Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred to talk.

Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.

Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; wisdom is humble that it knows no more.

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

I'm not the dumbest guy that ever lived.

Learn from me, if not by my precepts, then by my example, how dangerous is the pursuit of knowledge and how much happier is that man who believes his native town to be the world than he who aspires to be greater than his nature will allow.

Sixty years ago I knew everything. Now I know nothing. Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.

Knowledge and wisdom, far from being one, Have ofttimes no connection. Knowledge dwells In heads replete with thoughts of other men, Wisdom in minds attentive to their own. Knowledge is proud that he has learned so much, Wisdom is humble that he knows no more.

Let no man glory in the greatness of his mind, but rather keep watch o'er his wits.

The only thing more dangerous than ignorance is arrogance.

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

Wisdom is also a deeper consciousness of ignorance.