Muhammad Ali Quotes

Wisdom is knowing when you can't be wise.

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

A man only becomes wise when he begins to calculate the approximate depth of his ignorance.

Wisdom is humble that he knows no more.

The realization of ignorance is the first act of knowing.

The little I know I owe to my ignorance.

The greatest wisdom is to realize one's lack of it.

It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance.

Wise are you, indeed... to know what is not possible.

The wise know their limitations; the foolish do not.

I am not omniscient, but I know a lot.

The wise speak only of what they know

I am sufficiently proud of my knowing something to be modest about my not knowing all.

The wise are not so much wiser than others as respecters of their own wisdom.

A wise man heedeth all things, and in his own eyes is a fool.

To know you are ignorant is the beginning of wisdom.

I am enormously wise and abysmally ignorant.

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

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.

I have thousands of opinions still - but that is down from millions - and, as always, I know nothing.

To know what you know and what you do not know, that is true knowledge.

The learned man knows that he is ignorant.