Knowledge Humility Quotes

There is no such thing as an expert on Russia. There are only people with varying degrees of ignorance.

Being schooled is the same thing as learning, and you can never be too old to have your coattail pulled when you're wrong about something.

My major hobby is teasing people who take themselves and the quality of their knowledge too seriously and those who don't have the guts to sometimes say: I don't know.

I know what I don't know. I would seek out, as I have, the best advice that exists. I won't get my information from the shows.

Another person who's smarter than I. What a relief to not have to be the smartest guy anymore.

I don't feel frightened by not knowing things.

The only thing worse than human ignorance is human pride in that ignorance.

A little learning is not a dangerous thing to one who does not mistake it for a great deal.

People are really hesitant about expressing that they don't know something - but what's the big deal? I'm not ashamed about that at all.

I envy no man that knows more than myself, but pity them that know less.

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.

Fiction is often most powerful when the author is exploring an issue - and not writing like a know-it-all who has the perfect answer.

In years of interviewing presidents, prime ministers and chief executives all over the world, I can remember only a handful of times in which a leader has said: 'I don't know' in answer to a question. Perhaps everyone I have ever interviewed knows everything about everything, but I doubt it.

When you act like a teacher, it's usually because you're afraid to be the student.

most people did not care to be taught what they did not already know; it made them feel ignorant.