Sacha Guitry Quotes

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

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

The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance.

To know anything well involves a profound sensation of ignorance.

You know a lot, but you don't know everything.

There is not anything that can so suddenly flood the mind with shame as the conviction of ignorance, yet we are all ignorant of nearly everything there is to be known.

Understanding that rests in what it does not understand is the finest.

I'm not very wise to many things.

To know, is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge.

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

He that knew all that learning ever writ, Knew only this - that he knew nothing yet.

It is impossible to make people understand their ignorance, for it requires knowledge to perceive it; and, therefore, he that can perceive it hath it not.

I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.

The learning and knowledge that we have, is, at the most, but little compared with that of which we are ignorant.

Who knows most, doubts most.

The more you learn, the more you learn you don't know.

Knowing what I don't know helps me every day.

I am not omniscient, but I know a lot.

I know what I do not know.

The wise man is one who knows what he does not know.

I know all one can know when one knows nothing.

What you know, you know, what you don't know, you don't know. This is true wisdom.

Our knowledge is a little island in a great ocean of nonknowledge.

If we become increasingly humble about how little we know, we may be more eager to search.

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