Isaac Watts Quotes

We are all ignorant, just about different things.

The most important knowledge is understanding what you can't do.

I know what I do not know.

What's an expert? I read somewhere, that the more a man knows, the more he knows he doesn't know. So I suppose one definition of an expert would be someone who doesn't admit out loud that he knows enough about a subject to know he doesn't really know how much.

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.

The little I know I owe to my ignorance.

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

… a progressive discovery of our own ignorance

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

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

It really is very true that the more you do, the less you know. I try to keep myself very open-minded in that sense.

I think humility - which I think is a very good value to adopt - is basically an extension of understanding your own ignorance.

It's good to slowly come to the realization that you understand nothing.

To know you are ignorant is the beginning of wisdom.

The Beginning of Philosophy is a Consciousness of your own Weakness and inability in necessary things.

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.

My dominant feeling every day is one of great ignorance.

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

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

Indeed, the most important product of knowledge is ignorance.