Richard Cecil Quotes

Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.

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

If we become increasingly humble about how little we know, we may be more eager to search.

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

Indeed, the most important product of knowledge is ignorance.

When you know a thing, to hold that you know it, and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it - this is knowledge.

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.

We can't all wake up and know everything.

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.

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

He who knows best knows how little he knows.

The learned man knows that he is ignorant.

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

Doubt grows with knowledge.

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

The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand.

The more knowledge you get, the more questions you ask. The smarter you get, the more you realize that everything can be possible.

The greatest wisdom is to realize one's lack of it.

Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.

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

I'll never know everything. My life would be a lot worse if there was nothing I knew the answers about - and if there was nothing I didn't know the answers about.

It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance.

The more you learn, the more you learn you don't know.

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