humility in knowledge Quotes

I have observed that the world has suffered far less from ignorance than from pretensions to knowledge. It is not skeptics or explorers but fanatics and ideologues who menace decency and progress. No agnostic ever burned anyone at the stake or tortured a pagan, a heretic, or an unbeliever.

Conceit is a privilege of the ignorant; the wise man is humble because he knows how little he knows.

Its about continuing to learn and being open-minded, don't ever think you know it all.

Once we've learned enough about the universe we will admit to ourselves that we will never know everything.

We do need knowledge. And perhaps in a thousand years we might pick smaller cliffs to jump off. The books are to remind us what asses and fools we are.

I love to make a mistake. It is my only assurance that I cannot reasonably be expected to assume the responsibility of omniscience.

A man though wise, should never be ashamed of learning more, and must unbend his mind.

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

I'm suspicious of too much certainty in the pursuit of understanding just because I think people are limited in their understanding.

The idea that you know more than the intelligence community knows, it's a little like saying, I know more about physics than my professor.

The wisest of you men is he who has realized, like Socrates, that in respect of wisdom he is really worthless.

Praise ignorance, for what man has not encountered he has not destroyed.

We should realize that, if [Socrates] demanded that the wisest men should rule, he clearly stressed that he did not mean the learned men; in fact, he was skeptical of all professional learnedness, whether it was that of the philosophers or of the learned men of his own generation, the Sophists. The wisdom he meant was of a different kind. It was simply the realization: how little do I know! Those who did not know this, he taught, knew nothing at all. This is the true scientific spirit.