Harold Bloom Quotes

He who knows others is clever; He who knows himself has discernment.

Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.

What I've come to know is that in life, it's not always the questions we ask, but rather our ability to hear the answers that truly enriches our understanding. Never, never stop learning.

I would be a poorer person if the only things I knew were what I had found out for myself.

The more I read, the more I realise what I don't know.

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

Do the things you know, and you shall learn the truth you need to know.

I was a little truth seeker as a child. I wanted more than anything to understand myself and also other people.

He that knows himself, knows others; and he that is ignorant of himself, could not write a very profound lecture on other men's heads.

We forge gradually our greatest instrument for understanding the world - introspection. We discover that humanity may resemble us very considerably - that the best way of knowing the inwardness of our neighbors is to know ourselves.

It is wisdom to know others. It is enlightenment to know oneself.

He who knows himself properly can very soon learn to know all other men. It is all reflection.

He who knows himself knows others.

The man who realizes his ignorance has taken the first step toward knowledge.

A student of life considers the world a classroom.

The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.

Experience is a dim lamp, which only lights the one who bears it.

As a species we are always hungry for new knowledge.

Indeed, the most important product of knowledge is ignorance.

I think that's one of the most important things that books do: not to teach you anything, but to help you teach yourself by just being in the world of the book and having your own thoughts and reactions and noticing your own reactions and thoughts and learning about yourself that way.

Ultimately, education in its real sense is the pursuit of truth. It is an endless journey through knowledge and enlightenment.

The learned man knows that he is ignorant.

I'm constantly learning, and that is the greatest gift of life in my opinion - to always be learning and growing.

It's only through listening that you learn, and I never want to stop learning.

I don't claim to know everything. I claim to be a seeker of knowledge.