Jeremy Taylor Quotes

The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance.

To know anything well involves a profound sensation of ignorance.

Knowing what I don't know helps me every day.

Understanding that rests in what it does not understand is the finest.

To know yet to think that one does not know is best; Not to know yet to think that one knows will lead to difficulty.

The learned man knows that he is ignorant.

I'm not very wise to many things.

A man only becomes wise when he begins to calculate the approximate depth of his ignorance.

A college education shows a man how little other people know.

Who knows most, doubts most.

To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge.

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

I do not know everything; still many things I understand.

I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.

Books are as useful to a stupid person as a mirror is useful to a blind person.

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.

Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.

No man should escape our universities without knowing how little he knows.

To know, is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge.

Doubt grows with knowledge.

Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.

In order to have wisdom we must have ignorance.

Indeed he knows not how to know who knows not also how to un-know.

The learning and knowledge that we have, is, at the most, but little compared with that of which we are ignorant.