Bill Buford Quotes

Acquaint yourself with your own ignorance.

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

To know your limitations is the hallmark of a wise person.

Knowing what you cannot do is more important than knowing what you can do.

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

It's good to slowly come to the realization that you understand nothing.

Shall I tell you what knowledge is? It is to know both what one knows and what one does not know.

The Beginning of Philosophy is a Consciousness of your own Weakness and inability in necessary things.

The first step towards knowing is to see that you do not know.

The learned man knows that he is ignorant.

I was born not knowing and have had only a little time to change that here and there.

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

Wisdom is humble that he knows no more.

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

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

If I don't have wisdom, I can teach you only ignorance.

The realization of ignorance is the first act of knowing.

The little I know I owe to my ignorance.

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

To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge.

Become aware of your own insufficiency.

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.

I think humility - which I think is a very good value to adopt - is basically an extension of understanding your own ignorance.

We are all ignorant, just about different things.

I do not know is a phrase which becomes us.