Jim Rohn Quotes

To know what you know and what you do not know, that is true knowledge.

He who knows, does not speak. He who speaks, does not know.

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

There are many things of which a wise man might wish to be ignorant.

The wise speak only of what they know

What you know, you know, what you don't know, you don't know. This is true wisdom.

Fullness of knowledge always means some understanding of the depths of our ignorance; and that is always conducive to humility and reverence.

Words let us say the things we want to say and also things we would be better off not having said. They let us know the things we need to know, and also things we wish we didn't.

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

I'm not very wise to many things.

To know, is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge.

A man only becomes wise when he begins to calculate the approximate depth of his 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.

I've reached the age of self-knowledge, so I don't know anything. People who claim that they know something are responsible for most of the fuss in the world.

The first step towards knowledge is to know that we are ignorant.

I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.

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

To realize that you do not understand is a virtue; Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.

Choose silence of all virtues, for by it you hear other men's imperfections, and conceal your own.

The realization of ignorance is the first act of knowing.

I see, I know, I believe, I am undeceived.

I, schooled in misery, know many purifying rites, and I know where speech is proper and where silence.

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

Wisdom begins at the end.

Never rise to speak till you have something to say; and when you have said it, cease.