Nelson Mandela Quotes

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.

The longer I'm alive, the more I realize how little I know. Pretending that you know everything about every topic, and being very vocal about it? That's an instant turnoff.

Arrogance diminishes wisdom.

A certain degree of intellectual humility is a good thing.

You can't say when you are 25 years old that you know everything. You don't.

The only thing more dangerous than ignorance is arrogance.

We learn nothing by being right.

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.

Knowledge does not corrupt, unless it is arrogant; but then it is not true knowledge.

Maturity: the confidence to have no opinions on many things.

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.

Genius goes around the world in its youth incessantly apologizing for having large feet. What wonder that later in life it should be inclined to raise those feet too swiftly to fools and bores.

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.

I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.

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.

I know nothing, except the fact of my ignorance.

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

I was a philosophy major as an undergraduate, and I'm just an arrogant little thing. It's hard for me to admit that I can't understand something, let alone not be in charge of it.

I'm not the dumbest guy that ever lived.

If you don't know something, admit it. But, try to impress them with what you do know.

One who is shy will never gain knowledge, nor one who is proud.

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

Do not be an arrogant scholar, for scholarship cannot subsist with arrogance.

People can overlook any shortcoming, but they will not tolerate arrogance.

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