Robert G. Ingersoll Quotes

Profound ignorance makes a man dogmatic. The man who knows nothing thinks he is teaching others what he has just learned himself; the man who knows a great deal can't imagine that what he is saying is not common knowledge, and speaks more indifferently.

Pretending to know everything closes the door to finding out what's really there.

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

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

I know nothing, except the fact of my ignorance.

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

A man learns all his life and dies the day he thinks that he has learnt everything.

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

The only thing more dangerous than ignorance is arrogance.

Many person might have achieved wisdom had they not supposed that they already possessed it.

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

Wisdom comes to those who learn nothing, unlearn everything.

Who does not understand should either learn, or be silent.

We learn nothing by being right.

There is but a slight difference between the man who may be said to know nothing and him who thinks he knows everything.

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

The kind of man who always thinks that he is right, that his opinions, his pronouncements, are the final word, when once exposed shows nothing there. But a wise man has much to learn without a loss of dignity.

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

What I learned is that it's arrogant to be certain of anything. The world is a complex place and only idiots or assholes think they know it all.

The man who thinks he knows something does not yet know as he ought to know.

I tell you what I love - and I think you get better as you get older - when you're younger and you don't know what you don't know, you tend to talk more about what you think you know. You shut out the opportunity to learn what you don't know.

Be willing to learn, because none of us know the truth

If you're smart, you'll always be humble. You can learn all you want, but there'll always be somebody who's never read a book who'll know twice what you know.

To be proud of learning is the greatest ignorance.

I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.