Paul DePodesta Quotes

It's not like I have all the answers.

I don't feel I'm better than any man out there or that I have anything to teach, and the more I learn about myself, the less comfortable I feel saying anything at all.

I beseech you, in the bowels of Christ, think it possible you may be mistaken.

I don't pretend I know everything.

I don't have all the answers.

I do not know it all and do not claim to.

If I were to say at any point that I feel really confident or really in control, that would be a mistake. Because I don't. I always see where I didn't do things the right way.

It would not be wise for us to say we know what we don't know.

Let your tongue become accustomed to the words “I do not know”.

Learn to say, “I don’t know.”

I think so much of real life is this avoidance of getting into the not knowing. So much of my life, I've been running from just admitting that I don't know.

I do not know is a phrase which becomes us.

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

The importance of humility. We need the humility to know that truth can be ephemeral, that this can be but one version of the truth.

H. L. Mencken told me once that he answered all his mail, pleasant and unpleasant, with just one line, 'You may be right.' That's the way I feel now. It is in the realm of possibility, just barely, that I could be the one who's wrong.

We'd like to be humble...but what if no one notices?

You should be convinced of the authenticity of what you have, but you must also be humble enough to say that we don't know everything. And since we don't know everything, we must accept that another person may believe something else.

I am not ashamed to confess that I am ignorant of what I do not know.

People ask me a question, I'll give them my opinion. I never claimed to have all the answers.

I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.

I am not overconfident.

He who knows best knows how little he knows.

Try to keep your mind open to possibilities and your mouth closed on matters that you don't know about. Limit your 'always' and your 'nevers.'

The learned man knows that he is ignorant.

The thing I always tell my audiences all the time is that I'm just two steps ahead of you on a good day. And I might be two steps behind you on a bad day.