Adriana Trigiani Quotes

I'm not known for my intellectual range and tricks have been played on me.

I thought I was so much smarter than everybody. And I'm not.

I really am a chick from Long Island who's just learning along with everyone.

Humble, honest, ignorance is one of the finest flowers of the human spirit

My ignorance is not charming.

Wisdom comes to those who learn nothing, unlearn everything.

the more I live, the more I regret how little i know

It's good to slowly come to the realization that you understand nothing.

"I know quite enough of myself," said Bella, with a charming air of being inclined to give herself up as a bad job, "and I don't improve upon acquaintance..."

but if I've learned anything, it's that we don't know half of what we think we do. And we know ourselves least of all.

Of all the idiots I have met in my life, and the Lord knows they have not been few or little, I think that I have been the biggest.

I've spent my life making blunders.

Someone has said,"Education is going from an unconscious to conscious awareness of one's ignorance."..No one has a corner on wisdom. All the name-dropping in the world does not heighten the significance of our character. If anything, it reduces it. Our acute need is to cultivate a willingness to learn and to remain teachable.

Remember, you cannot be both young and wise. Young people who pretend to be wise to the ways of the world are mostly just cynics.

How do I stay humble? Because I'm the best at being humble.

When he is pushed, tormented, defeated, he has a chance to learn something; ... he learns his ignorance, is cured of the insanity of conceit; has got moderation and real skill.

Only one who has learned much can fully appreciate his ignorance.

Every day I wonder how many things I am dead wrong about. -- True North

The only thing about myself I know for sure is that I don't know anything.

Wisdom tends to grow in proportion to one's awareness of one's ignorance.

I never did a single wise thing in the whole course of my existence, although I have written many which have been thought so.

I was naïve when I was young, I was sheltered. I had illusions about who I was going to be, delusions, and a little bit of pretentiousness. And I thought, "I'll write the guy like that. It'll allow me to make fun of everyone else if I make fun of myself."

I can't ask for more out of life, and the more I learn, the less I know.

The Beginning of Philosophy is a Consciousness of your own Weakness and inability in necessary things.

The first step towards knowing is to see that you do not know.