William Allen White Quotes

Do not be an arrogant scholar, for scholarship cannot subsist with arrogance.

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

To be proud of learning is the greatest ignorance.

True, a little learning is a dangerous thing, but it still beats total ignorance.

Smatterers in learning are the most opinionated.

A little learning is a dangerous thing, but a lot of ignorance is just as bad.

Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; wisdom is humble that it knows no more.

A little learning is a dangerous thing, but we must take that risk because a little is as much as our biggest heads can hold.

We thought because we had power, we had wisdom.

I hope I continue to learn. If I don't, then I know everything.

A foolish man thinks he knows everything. A wise man knows he doesn't.

The people I go after are the false experts, those who do not accept the limits of their knowledge.

I am not young enough to know everything.

If you're smart, you'll always be humble. You can learn all you want, but there'll always be somebody who's never read a book who'll know twice what you know.

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

As soon as you think you can do whatever you want and you have whatever great professional in the world waiting to work with you, then you are sunk.

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

I'm not very wise to many things.

The more you are in this business, the more humbled by it you become.

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

The brighter you are, the more you have to learn.

Experience is a great teacher.

A little learning, indeed, may be a dangerous thing, but the want of learning is a calamity to any people.

The longer I'm alive, the more I realize how little I know. Pretending that you know everything about every topic, and being very vocal about it? That's an instant turnoff.

If a little knowledge is dangerous, where is the man who has so much as to be out of danger?