Malcolm Forbes Quotes

If you think you know it all, you are missing something.

The losers in life think they have all the answers. They can’t learn because they’re too busy telling everyone what they know.

The boughs that bear most hang lowest.

It's most presumptuous to believe we already know all the answers and will never get any more big surprises.

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.

If a little knowledge is dangerous, where is the man who has so much as to be out of danger?

I think I know it all, relatively speaking.

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.

The person who knows "how" will always have a job. The person who knows "why" will always be his boss

Be not arrogant because of that which you know; deal with the ignorant as with the learned

Douglas MacArthur was a man of high abilities. However his view of his abilities was much higher. A great leader has to be a little self effacing. A cannot imagine Douglas MacArthur ever being self effacing.

The more people that praise you, the more there is danger to develop arrogance.

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

It's hubris to think that the way we see things is everything there is.

The true way to be deceived is to think oneself more knowing than others.

The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt. Even those of the intelligent who believe that they have a nostrum are too individualistic to combine with other intelligent men from whom they differ on minor points.

To be proud of knowledge is to be blind with light.

Even more exasperating than the guy who thinks he knows it all is the one who really does.

Profound ignorance makes a man dogmatic. The man who knows nothing thinks he is teaching others what he has just learned himself; the man who knows a great deal can't imagine that what he is saying is not common knowledge, and speaks more indifferently.

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

The minute you think you know everything about tennis is the minute your game starts going down the tubes.

Pride is less ashamed of being ignorant, than of being instructed, and she looks too high to find that, which very often lies beneath her.

The man who is cocksure that he has arrived is ready for the return journey.