John Dee Quotes

Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.

The learned man knows that he is ignorant.

No man should escape our universities without knowing how little he knows.

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

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

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

Let ignorance talk as it will, learning has its value.

Have the courage to be ignorant of a great number of things, in order to avoid the calamity of being ignorant of everything.

Question everything. Learn something. Answer nothing.

Don't let your heart get big because of your knowledge. Take counsel with the ignorant as well as with the scholar.

To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge.

It is only through reading that one can understand how people are smarter than you and what they have left behind for you.

I don't study to know more, but to ignore less.

The more one learns, the more he understands his ignorance.

Shall I tell you the secret of the true scholar? It is this: every man I meet is my master in some point, and in that I learn of him.

Nothing is so good for an ignorant man as silence; and if he was sensible of this he would not be ignorant.

Though a man be wise it is no shame for him to live and learn.

Teach thy tongue to say 'I do not know', and thou shalt progress.

I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.

A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.

The most useful piece of learning for the uses of life is to unlearn what is untrue.

I was born not knowing and have had only a little time to change that here and there.

'How do you know so much about everything?' was asked of a very wise and intelligent man; and the answer was 'By never being afraid or ashamed to ask questions as to anything of which I was ignorant.'

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

Doubt grows with knowledge.