Benedict Cumberbatch Quotes

The man who voyages strange seas must of necessity be a little unsure of himself. It is the man with the flashy air of knowing everything, who is always with it, that we should beware of.

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

The true way to be deceived is to think oneself more knowing than others.

Expertise in one field does not carry over into other fields. But experts often think so. The narrower their field of knowledge the more likely they are to think so.

A wise man heedeth all things, and in his own eyes is a fool.

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

Do not try to entrap others with your haughty knowledge. To your wide surprise, they will entrap you with their lengthy ignorance.

There are certain fixed rules that one observes for one's own comfort. For instance, never be flippantly rude to any inoffensive grey-bearded stranger that you may meet in pine forests or hotel smoking-rooms on the Continent. It always turns out to be the King of Sweden.

Pride blinds people to the truth of what they are.

There is but a slight difference between the man who may be said to know nothing and him who thinks he knows everything.

The line between confidence and arrogance is very fine, Josh,” Flamel said quietly. “And the line between arrogance and stupidity even finer. Sophie,” he added, without looking at her.

A specialist is a barbarian whose ignorance is not well-rounded.

A dogmatic tone is generally inspired by abysmal ignorance. The man who knows nothing thinks he is informing others of something which he has that moment learnt; the man who knows a great deal can scarcely believe that people are ignorant of what he is telling them, and speaks more diffidently.

There's a reason they say,"Pride goeth before a fall.

A foolish man thinks he knows everything. A wise man knows he doesn't," Finn replied absently, still looking down at the book. "That's such a fortune-cookie answer," I said with a laugh, and even he smirked at me.

As there are some faults that have been termed faults on the right side, so there are some errors that might be denominated errors on the safe side. Thus we seldom regret having been too mild, too cautious, or too humble; but we often repent having been too violent, too precipitate, or too proud.

A man’s ignorance sometimes is not only useful, but beautiful - while his knowledge, so called, is oftentimes worse than useless, besides being ugly. Which is the best man to deal with - he who knows nothing about a subject, and, what is extremely rare, knows that he knows nothing, or he who really knows something about it, but thinks that he knows all?

Man is fed with fables through life, and leaves it in the belief he knows something of what has been passing, when in truth he knows nothing but what has passed under his own eyes.

A little knowledge can go a long way.

How little we know of what there is to know.

No one is so wrong as the man who knows all the answers.

Half-knowledge is worse than ignorance.

I would have every man write what he knows and no more.

Ignorance, if recognized, is often more fruitful than the appearance of knowledge.

Definition: CONNOISSEUR, n. A specialist who knows everything about something and nothing about anything else.