Dorothy L. Sayers Quotes

A man must know his limitations.

It's important to know what you can do and what you can't.

The most important thing for any performer is to know your own weaknesses. It's much more important to know what you can't do than what you can do.

The most important thing is knowing what you are good at.

Men must know their limitations.

I am not very smart, but I recognize that I am not very smart.

Men take only their needs into consideration - never their abilities.

I know what I can do and what I can't.

Whatever faults I may have, I do know a player.

I am trained as a fashion designer and do not claim to be an expert architect or anything like that. I won't do something unless I know I can do it.

You really have to learn what you're good at and what you're not good at, what you can handle and what you can't handle. We have a tendency to forget it.

If you have competence, you pretty much know its boundaries already. To ask the question (of whether you are past the boundary) is to answer it.

A man's got to know his limitations.

I know enough now to know I know nothing.

To know one's ignorance is the best part of knowledge.

I only know when I don't know a thing. My uncle has taught me that wisdom lies in that.

It's always an honor to be ranked high, but whatever is said about you, you take it and then take a realistic look at yourself and who you are.

I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.

I definitely don't think of myself as being an influence.

'What am I missing?' is a much more important question than 'How cool am I?'

I'm very realistic. I know my boundaries - I know what I'm good at and what I'm not good at.

I'm not quite pompous enough to think of myself as an educator or a man capable of definitive refutation of falsehoods.

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

I never answer, because I can't, which is my favorite among my own books.

The learned man knows that he is ignorant.