Simone Weil Quotes

I'm not the dumbest guy that ever lived.

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

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

Arrogance diminishes wisdom.

I am not young enough to know everything.

He who lives without folly isn't so wise as he thinks.

The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself a fool.

I'm a little smarter than most.

A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool.

I'm not very wise to many things.

Be wiser than other people if you can, but do not tell them so.

I said I was 'The Greatest,' I never said I was the smartest!

I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.

I think I know it all, relatively speaking.

If we learn not humility, we learn nothing.

People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.

The fellow who thinks he knows it all is especially annoying to those of us who do.

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.

I hope I don't have an ego.

If a man knew anything, he would sit in a corner and be modest; but he is such an ignorant peacock, that he goes bustling up and down, and hits on extraordinary discoveries.

I do not know everything; still many things I understand.

Whenever a man boasts much about [his common sense], you may be pretty sure that he has very little sense, either common or uncommon.

Humility is always proof of intelligence