Benjamin Hoff Quotes

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

A man who knows he is a fool is not a great fool.

And he is oft the wisest manWho is not wise at all.

A foolish man thinks he knows everything. A wise man knows he doesn't.

Wise men have more to learn of fools than fools of wise men.

I am not young enough to know everything.

Remember that the greatest fool in the world may ask more than the wisest man can answer.

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

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

Wisdom is humble that he knows no more.

Wisdom is knowing when you can't be wise.

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

Knowledge fills a large brain; it merely inflates a small one.

I am not young enough to know everything.

It's what you learn after you know it all, that counts.

No one, however smart, however well educated … is the suppository of all wisdom.

In seeking wisdom thou art wise; in imagining that thou hast attained it - thou art a fool.

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

Wisdom is a gift but has nothing to do with age. That was probably the case with me.

Wise are you, indeed... to know what is not possible.

I am not omniscient, but I know a lot.

Sense shines with double lustre when set in humility.

The wise speak only of what they know

Understanding that rests in what it does not understand is the finest.

The wise are wise only because they love.